date:May 16, 2013
Co.'s engineering of a potato in the late 1990s using DNA from foreign microorganisms. Monsanto withdrew the New Leaf potatoes in 2001, after fast-food restaurants shunned them.
In some ways, Okanagan and Simplot couldn't be more different.
Okanagan has seven employees, including owner Neal Carter; privately-held Simplot has 10,000, with 2012 sales of $5.6 billion on products ranging from fertilizer to cattle and french fries to fast-food giant McDonald's.
But each share goals: using scienc