b"Ridging a cover crop field.PHOTO: HAROLD PERRYprocessing company, Simplot, has opted for a quieter approach to its green goals. The french fry processor plans to reduce their energy and water usage by 15 per cent by 2030, along with other targets for its facilities.The energy goals builds on a previous 10-year energy goal to reduce our footprint 25 per cent, explains Brandy Wilson, Simplots global sustainability director. We're looking to reduce water 15 per cent, carbon emissions 20 per cent across our whole organization, and then zero waste to landfill for our food processing plants.Wilson says their approach to their green goals, which focus on internal operations, is due to how the company is structured. Theyve opted to not make large public announcements as Simplot provides a full suite of services to the growers they work withthe companys sustainability plans are still publicly available though. Since the farmers are our customers and our suppliers simultaneously, it makes so much more sense for us to help work with them on-the-ground, and problem solve with them around sustainability and figure out how to make progress and how to reach some of these goals, she says.Through Simplot Grower Solutions, they sell agronomy products to growers they work with, and then they buy the potatoes that the growers producemeaning growers are both customers and suppliers for Simplot.Simplot works with potato growers across North America on their sustainability goals. This includes Berry, who they have partnered with to do tests on his minimal tillage potato fields. Simplot collects and uses the data from growers like Berry, to SPUDSMART.COM Fall 202111"