Idaho potatoes are harvested in early fall, and they’re usually finished by mid-October, before the heavy frost starts rolling in.
Lamb Weston’s facility produces millions of pounds of fast food french fries per day — oftentimes sourced from directly from Idaho!
Just how much produce is the agricultural industry leaving in the fields post harvest? The World Wildlife Fund dove into food loss numbers in their recent report, “No Food Left Behind: Underutilized Produce Ripe for Alternative Markets.” The report examines four crops during the 2017-2018 growing season at a set of farms in Florida, New […]
Potatoes may not perish as fast in the future. The J.R. Simplot Company has executed a joint intellectual property licensing agreement with Corteva Agriscience and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for foundational CRISPR-Cas9 and related gene editing tools. The technology will give Simplot another avenue to bring desirable traits forward in certain fruits […]
The pork industry is taking a one, two punch following President Trump’s latest announcement to implement tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Mexico, Canada, and the European Union. On Tuesday Mexico levied punitive tariffs – 10 percent effective immediately, escalating to 20 percent – on unprocessed pork (not including variety meats) in retaliation. Mexico’s […]
Canoe Chef John Horne and farmer Gary Godelie hit it off immediately during the production of the “Before The Plate” food documentary.
A Los Mochis, Mexico district court judge’s ruling to continue the ban on U.S. potatoes across most of Mexico ignores science and directly threatens the role of the Mexican plant health regulatory authority, SAGARPA. According to the National Potato Council, the ruling contradicts the conclusions of SAGARPA, USDA, and third party experts that have reviewed […]
As someone who has grown up in the city, filmmaker Dylan Sher has a fascination for many of the things we have seen while filming “Before the Plate.”
Keep your eyes peeled for The Big Idaho Potato Truck on America’s highways as the big rig is back promoting Idaho’s most famous agricultural product.
Biotechnology continues to help protect America’s food security. Recently, the EPA and FDA gave the all-clear to three types of genetically engineered potatoes made by Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Co. The GE technology helps the crops to resist the pathogen that was at the heart of the Irish Potato Famine of the 19th century. The approval […]