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Penford Corporation (NASDAQ: PENX), announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Carolina Starches. Penford will purchase the company interests and certain assets of the businesses currently operated by Carolina Starches, LLC and Ke...

More than a decade has passed since Jim Tiede was among the growers caught up in a debacle over the first U.S. genetically modified potato variety. Even today, the American Falls, Idaho, farmer copes with the fallout of planting Monsanto's GM potato N...

Pootgoedhandelshuis HZPC wil de aardappel aantrekkelijk maken voor de jonge consument. Gemakkelijke bereiding, frisse verpakking en gezondheid zijn trefwoorden daarin. 'Colomba is een ras dat in 6 minuten in de magnetron te bereiden is met de schil e...

Idaho potato farmers who harvested later than normal because of a prolonged spring got their crops in without any significant damage before colder weather set in, though they had to push the envelope in some cases. There have been some reports of mino...

Mattel, Inc. [NASDAQ:MAT] today announced the election of Dirk Van de Put, president and chief executive officer of McCain Foods Limited, to the Mattel Board of Directors, effective as of December 1, 2011. This election will increase the number of Matt...

Los cultivadores de patatas de la septentrional región autónoma china de Mongolia Interior están solucionando su problema de exceso de existencias vendiendo parte de su producción a compradores extranjeros. Las autoridades agrícolas de la bandera (dis...

For Greenvale AP, the UK’s leading supplier of fresh potatoes, environmental issues are at the very heart of the business, and earlier this month they were formally recognised for their efforts when they were awarded the Fenland Enterprise Business Gre...

Today the USDA published figures on the US potato production in their report "Crop Production". Here is the summary on potatoes:

Heat and Control, Inc. and Food Process Systems, Inc. have formed a global partnership to develop and market new technology for applying batters, breading, and other coatings to a variety of food products.

The J. R. Simplot Company is planning to build a state-of-the-art potato processing plant in Caldwell, Idaho, with site preparation anticipated to begin next May and start-up expected by spring of 2014.

Myanmar has shown interest to import potato from Bangladesh because of the low price of the item here, said the commerce minister yesterday. Faruk Khan said Bangladesh will export a total of one lakh tonnes of potato to that country primarily. The mi...

Agrico presents their varieties and seedlings this year in special setting highlighting their Polish connection. The variety and seedling exhibition will be held on 10 and 11 Novemer at Agrico Research. For Agrico's breeding and research business, this...