Sustainability

What Are the Trends Driving Global Supply Chain Sustainability?

Monday, 07 July 2025 Blog & News | Sustainability

What Are the Trends Driving Global Supply Chain Sustainability? The food in your refrigerator tells a story: one of an intricate, interconnected global supply chain that requires the ongoing effort of hundreds of businesses and thousands of people. By the time it reaches your plate, much of your food will have traveled across the country—and sometimes even further. It’s made up of...

How Does Agriculture Affect Wildlife?

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 Blog & News | Sustainability

How Does Agriculture Affect Wildlife? Agriculture, by definition, means to alter the natural environment in order to produce the foods required by humans, often on a large scale. Changing the landscape in this way has an inevitable effect on the native flora and fauna. This is particularly true in the modern day, as the use of pesticides and fertilizers can often lead to an even greater...

Sustainability is Baked into Washington State Potato Farming

Monday, 21 November 2022 Blog & News | Sustainability

Did you know that sustainability is baked into Washington State potato farming? 99% of Washington’s potato farms are family farms. All too often, when we aren’t personally around farms, there can be a tendency to overlook the fact that farming is a practice and passion that farmers intend on continuing for decades – if not for longer when their kids & grandkids take over. Because...

Sustainable Practices in Generational Farming

Wednesday, 11 June 2025 Blog & News | Sustainability

  What Sustainable Practices Are Common in Generational Farming? Passing down the family farm to future generations is at the heart of the American farming industry. While large corporate “factory farms” often make the news as the face of the farming industry, you might be surprised to learn that as of 2021, 96 percent of US farms were owned by families, with 88 percent of them being...

How Regenerative Farming Practices Improve Soil Health

Wednesday, 11 September 2024 Blog & News | Sustainability

Imagine a plate sitting on the table in front of you. On that plate is your favorite meal. The main course is mouth-watering, but the side dishes look just as good. You’re excited to enjoy it, but don’t fill up too much because afterward, you’ll be enjoying a hearty helping of your favorite dessert. What foods came to mind? Perhaps you imagined a juicy steak and a baked potato, with ice...

Nutritious and Delicious Potatoes - Do They Deserve a Place on Your Plate?

Tuesday, 08 November 2022 Blog & News | Sustainability

I recently had the sincere pleasure of visiting a potato farm about an hour north of where I live here in Seattle in the Pacific Northwest. I didn’t even realize it before my visit, but I’m living in a major potato heartland. The Skagit Valley is located right between Seattle and the Canadian border where the Skagit river flows into the Puget Sound (yes - there’s water all around...

Smart Farming: Enhancing Potato Growth with Sustainable Water Practices

Friday, 17 January 2025 Blog & News | Sustainability

  Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River.   Smart Farming: Enhancing Potato Growth with Sustainable Water Practices The allotment of scarce resources, particularly water, has always been one of the biggest challenges in agriculture. This is especially true in the modern day since a changing climate and steadily increasing populations have made water sustainability a major...

Voluntary Conservation, the Bridge for Agriculture to Save Wildlife

Friday, 03 February 2023 Blog & News | Sustainability

MOSES LAKE, Washington, February 8, 2023 – Technical assistance rooted in providing site specific solutions to wildlife habitat protection and enhancement while maintaining agricultural viability is what the Voluntary Stewardship Program does, according to Harold Crose. Crose is a resource conservationist with the Columbia Basin Conservation District and has been part of the Voluntary...

Exploring Our Food System on a Potato Farm

Tuesday, 08 November 2022 Blog & News | Sustainability

Living in Washington State, sometimes I forget how big of a farming state this is. In the city, you’ll notice herb gardens, flowers, or even some berry patches in the summertime but if you drive North or East of the city of Seattle, you find yourself quickly surrounded by expansive fields of produce with irrigation spraying in bands and tractors or harvester equipment. When I went to the...
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