J.R. Simplot Company is a food and agribusiness group based in Boise, Idaho. The company describes itself as family owned and privately held since 1929. Its businesses cover food processing, crop nutrition and fertiliser manufacturing, turf and horticulture, cattle production and feeding, life sciences, and phosphate mining. It lists operations in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Argentina and China.
Simplot ranks 52nd in Food Engineering’s 2026 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies, which puts its food sales at $11,000 million for the year to December 2025. That figure is Food Engineering’s estimate, as the company is private. Garrett Lofto is President and CEO, and Scott Simplot is Chairman. The company has announced that Erik Brandenburg will become President of Simplot Global Food from 1 November 2026.