Cadena de Suministro de Papas

On May 6, 2011 Otter Tail Corporation completed the sale of Idaho Pacific Holding to affiliates of Novacap Industries III, L.P., for approximately $87.0 million in cash.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that Irish potato growers in Idaho and Malheur County, Ore., voted to continue their federal marketing order program.

The Columbia Basin, Idaho, and Wisconsin are all facing potential shortages, while North Dakota is sitting on more spuds than one year ago. The North American Potato Market News is reporting the Columbia Basin will run out by July 3rd if usage continu...

A series of focus groups around the United States has confirmed to the Idaho Potato Commission that consumers have an extremely positive perception of Idaho and its famous potatoes.

The start of the Kern County potato harvest will likely be delayed because of cool weather, said Jim Leimkuhler, president and owner, Progressive Produce Corp., Los Angeles.

Researchers of the University of Wisconsin Extension Plant Pathology alert farmers that a low level of the late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, has been detected in seed potatoes grown in Langlade County, Wisconsin.

For the first time, a tool is now available to growers for determining the risk of disease to potatoes in storage.

It’s only a matter of time before genetically modified potatoes hit the North American market, say industry experts.

The 13 major potato States held 106 million cwt of potatoes in storage April 1, 2011, down 18 percent from a year ago. Potatoes in storage accounted for 30 percent of the 2010 fall storage States' production, four percentage points below April 1, 2010.

General Colin L. Powell (Ret.) will share insights into global events, and the impact those changes and issues will have in the United States and abroad, at the National Restaurant Association’s annual trade show next month.

As America ramps up its fight against bulging waist lines, restaurant chains are providing ammunition in the form of great-tasting menu items with 550 or fewer calories.

Every year in January, the United States Potato Board (USPB) commissions a national online survey of 1,000+ US female primary food shoppers to track current potato attitudes and use in US households, and especially among our media target market.

Volgens het NAPMN (North American Potato Market News) zal het areaal aardappelen in de Verenigde Staten t.o.v. 2010 voor oogstjaar 2011 met 5% toenemen.

El Índice de la FAO para los precios de los alimentos ha bajado por vez primera tras ocho meses seguidos de incrementos, según anunció hoy la Organización de la ONU. El Índice tuvo un promedio de 230 puntos en marzo de 2011, un descenso del 2,9 por ci...

The Koenig distillery is beautifully industrial--a steampunk's dream--and today all that gleaming, steaming, needle-twitching splendor is producing a glorious, colorless, odorless and seemingly tasteless liquid.

Given that world potato production is about 320 million tons per year (20 million tons per year in the United States) and world tomato production is about 120 million tons per year (13 million tons per year in the U.S.), late blight is a major problem worldwide even today.