Potato News

La producción de pan compuesto en un 50 por ciento por harina de papa y un 50 por ciento por harina de trigo, será promocionada a partir de la fecha en las panaderías de los diferentes organismos del Estado, informó el presidente ejecutivo de Sierra Ex...

Wild is putting together an experienced team in preparation for its planned initial public offering, tapping Symrise's CFO to take it through the process. The plan to go public in 2010 was announced in September, and will necessitate restructuring of W...

One of the world's largest french fry processors, McCain Foods Ltd. of Canada, may build a $150 million potato processing plant in Washington. Chris Voigt, executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission in Moses Lake, said a new plant ...

FMC Technologies, Inc., Houston, announced in October the intended spin-off of its FMC FoodTech and FMC Airport Systems divisions into a separate, independent and publicly traded company. The separation will be completed in mid-2008. Charlie Cannon, ...

Corazonas Foods Inc., creators of great-tasting, heart-healthy snack foods, transforms the all-American classic potato chip into a heart-healthy culinary delight with the launch of Corazonas Heart-Healthy Potato Chips. Patented technology infusing pla...

Calgary may be making history this week as the first Canadian city to ban trans fats in restaurants, but that doesn't mean eating out will soon become much healthier. Some nutrition experts are concerned the massive push to eliminate trans fats in Ca...

Farmers' hopes to recover flood losses by cultivating potato may be shattered as vast areas of potato fields in Nilphamari are attacked with 'early blight' and 'late blight' diseases due to dense fog and chilly cold.With expectations of good prices fro...

Tate &Lyle has completed its sale of its Mexican sugar business, removing itself from volatile commodity markets and allowing it to refocus on value-added ingredients.The ingredients giant announced the move in October and has since received cleara...

Cargill%20Inc. is turning its attention to ground beef for its next national branding effort. Cargill earlier this year introduced Meadowlands Farms ground beef -- its first effort in branding a product that had always been considered a commodity -- an...

With Americans working and partying later than ever, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are responding to the midnight munchies with extended hours, and in some cases, throwing away the "closed"sign altogether.Taco Bell, Wendy's and Burger King...

Despite last year being the worst for blight in the UK in 50 years, fewer than 30% of Soil Association organic farmers resorted to the use of copper. Two-thirds managed through the use of blight resistant varieties [1], crop rotations [2] and burning o...

Any political party can envy the popularity rating of potato among Ukrainian residents. In the International Year of the Potato, declared by the United Nations in 2008, Ukraine has a record high potato crop, about 20 million tons. “In Europe only Russ...