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Shares in the company that runs Wendy's and Arby's restaurants jumped sharply Thursday on rumors of yet another high-profile buyout in the works.

Food and Farming Minister, Jim Paice, will be celebrating Potato Day on 14 October with a visit to Frogmary Green Farm in Somerset, a farm which works to educate children about potatoes.

Floods in Poland and a drought in Russia have wiped out large portions of the potato harvests in those countries, prompting their buyers to turn abroad in search of spuds.

McCain Foods in Plover will be getting a significant grant from the Wisconsin governor's office in order to help increase energy efficiency at the plant.

The National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA), a branch of Peru's Agriculture Ministry, presented today the INIA 309 potato -also known as Serranita Ecologica (Ecological Serranita)- which uses fewer pesticides during its cultivation

Last fall, a motivated group of potato industry members set out to find a way to create short-term demand for potatoes that goes beyond the traditional coupon or price cut, but wasn’t a consistent, long-term demand catalyst.

Key Technology and ABCO Industries announce the formation of a manufacturing and sales alliance.

Door het aanhoudend mooie weer zal naar schatting aan het eind van de week (41) 75% van de consumptieaardappelen in Nederland zijn gerooid.

Coöperatie Cosun boekt dit jaar een hogere winst dan in 2009.

In time for the festive period, Kettle Chips is introducing a winter seasonal flavour, Stilton and Port, to its range of hand cooked chips in the UK.

Nutrition rating systems and symbols on the fronts of food packaging would be most useful to shoppers if they highlighted four nutrients of greatest concern – calories, saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium – says a new report from the Institute of Med...