Papas Fritas y Especialidades de Papa

Fourth-generation potato farmer Dominic Prendergast is hoping for a better potato season than last year. At the beginning of this year he led a group of Ballarat growers in a successful protest for better prices against global food giant McCain. In M...

McDonald's is organising a contest around the famous phrase 'Do you want fries with that'. Please note that this McDonald's contest is held in the United States only. Here are more details from McDonald's.

Management at McCain Foods manufacturing facility in Mehsana hosted senior Canadian government officials who were on a recent trade mission to India to strengthen and advance bilateral trade between the two countries. Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of I...

ConAgra Foods announced Thursday they have dropped plans to build their much anticipated Lamb Weston Office in Riceland's Columbia Point Area. However, they are still going to expand their operation in the Tri Cities. They're now planning to build nex...

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...

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.

Global demand for frozen potato products (comprised mostly of frozen fries) is forecast up 5 percent from last year, according a recent report by the USDA.

Last week, Kees van Arendonk, chair of the Dutch Potato Association (NAO) spoke about the Dutch and Belgian french Fry industry on the occasion of the opening of the trading year of the Dutch potato markets (Goes).

According to Rob Clayton, director of WPC 2012 organiser the Potato Council, the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - hold enormous potential for the development of the potato industry both in their own countries and on the international ...

Onder invloed van een groeiend aantal fast food aanbieders neemt ook de vraag naar bevroren aardappelproducten snel toe. Voor het komend seizoen verwacht het Amerikaans ministerie van landbouw (USDA) zelfs 5 procent meer vraag. Voor seizoen 2011/12, w...

According to a Nation's Restaurant News overview of menu trends for 2012 modern takes on Thai cuisine and street-style Indian food will be the hot restaurant trends in 2012.

Cavendish Farms has entered a long-term partnership with The Jersey Shore Fry Company. As of September 1, 2011, Cavendish Farms has agreed to be the exclusive frozen french fry supplier of The Jersey Shore Fry Company and its authorized distributors....

BASF Plant Science applied today for EU approval for Fortuna, a genetically optimized table potato.Fortuna has a wild potato’s natural protection to late blight, a disease causing severe problems in agriculture.

Nederland en België veroveren structureel marktaandeel op de wereldmarkt voor frites. En dat is een goede zaak, zei Kees van Arendonk, voorzitter van de Nederlandse Aardappelorganisatie (NAO) dinsdag bij de opening van het nieuwe beursjaar in Heinkensz...

De eerste frietaardappelnotering van het nieuwe seizoen komt uit op 3,25 tot 4,25 euro per 100 kg voor frietgeschikte aardappelen en 4,00 tot 5,00 euro voor exportgeschikte aardappelen. Dit heeft Dick Vogelaar, gespreksleider van de noteringscommissie,...

De Nederlandse aardappelverwerkende industrie heeft in de periode oktober 2010 t/m september 2011 een record hoeveelheid aardappelen verwerkt tot consumptieproducten. De totale verwerkte hoeveelheid aardappelen was bijna 3,5 miljoen ton. In de vergeli...

The National Potato Council (NPC) applauded today’s complete suspension of the retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports by the government of Mexico. The action comes in response to last week’s approval of the first Mexico-based carrier by the U.S. Departmen...

De Belgapomprijs is de meest gehanteerde prijs, waargenomen op de vorige werkdag voor Bintje, voor verwerking tot diepgevroren aardappelproducten , veldgewas 35 mm+, frietgeschikt, af producent, los op wagen, voor onmiddellijke levering/ophaling. Vo...