Potato News

Presentación en PowerPoint de Rodolfo Rivers, Consultor de Inocuidad y Calidad de los Alimentos del Grupo Sanidad e Inocuidad Agroalimentaria de la FAO/RLC (25/11/2008). En su exposición describe las Buenas Prácticas Agrícolas (BPA) y explica qué promu...

The next generation of healthy soybean products from DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred will provide nutritionally enhanced oil with the highest oleic content in soybeans under commercial development: Plenish™ brand high oleic soybean oil

About 230 growers will be paid AUS$310-330 per tonne. That is $6 less per tonne of Russet Burbank potatoes and $9 less per tonne of other varieties. Grower Nathan Richardson is glad to finalise a deal and says Simplot has agreed to buy any potatoes ...

Jim Skinner, president and chief executive of McDonald's Corp., was selected as one of Brendan Wood International's 66 TopGun CEOs, the corporate advisory firm said Friday. Skinner was the only restaurant executive out of 750 companies around globe t...

Andrzej and Irena Paszota, potato farmers in northern Poland, are in the vanguard of the modernisation of the agriculture sector. With 600 hectares of their own land and 120 hectares rented from neighbours, they run what is by Polish standards a very ...

Op basis van de beschikbare gegevens via de verzamelaanvragen en de eenmalige perceelsregistratie heeft Vlaams minister van Landbouw Kris Peeters de eerste resultaten bekendgemaakt van de land- en tuinbouwteelten die dit jaar ingezaaid of geplant werde...

Recently, there has been a lot of media attention and public discussion about the Idaho Fry Company's name. The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) would like to share its side of the story and correct some of the misinformation that has been disseminated. O...

Met een ludieke omruilactie wil marktleider Lay's de komende drie weken bij supermarkten op diverse plekken in Nederland laten zien, dat er duidelijk verschil is tussen Lay's en andere merken chips. En de consument? Die vindt deze ludieke actie van La...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced revised guidelines for potato cyst nematode (PCN) that will allow continued trade of seed potatoes between the two countries. While PCN do...

Video with a few glimpses of how Lamb Weston produces their Signature Range Crisscut French fries in their Richland (Washington) potato processing facility.

For 10 years, building a potato processing plant has been on Tom Rolfstad’s to-do list, and the Williston Economic Development director continues to follow up on it.“I do think we’re on the right path,” Rolfstad said. “I think it’s worth pursuing. It ...

Doubling its export volume over the last four years helped win the McCain team the prestigious Exporter of the Year Award for 2009.The award, a joint initiative of Business New Brunswick and Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, was presented by New Br...