Canyon Falls Farms has established a food safety program that conforms with the internationally recognized GLOBALG.A.P. standard, certified by SCS Global Services. GLOBALG.A.P. is a Global Food Safety Initiative-benchmarked farm assurance program for good agricultural practices that helps satisfy advanced food safety and sustainability specifications of retailers and major buyers worldwide.
This comprehensive certification program requires annual third-party audits that keep us responsible for our efforts. Over multiple days, certified auditors tour our farms and facilities, interview employees, and search through our records to verify compliance.
Some of the ways we give customers confidence in the quality of food grown at Canyon Falls Farms:
- Growing all our food in our own fields, which are inspected before planting, during the growing season, and at harvest
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Conducting self-audits to ensure sanitation requirements for personal hygiene, employee training, and pest control are being met
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Taking soil tests and tissue samples weekly while growing our crops
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Implementing best management practices to guide annual nutrient applications
Traceability
Our traceability program starts with all our food being grown in our own fields. Our potatoes and sugarbeets are traceable from seed to sale. All applications of fertilizer and pesticides are done per label, with records of every application turned over to processors before a crop is harvested and also kept on file for inspectors.