The NCERA (North Central Research and Extension Activity) 205 group met in East Lansing during late March 2008. The group was composed of members from Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado and Nebraska potato industries. Michigan atten...

Total Canadian oilseed production during 2008/2009 is forecast to increase to 12.5 MMT from 11.5 million metric tons produced a year earlier. This increase is due to an 8% increase in canola production and a 12% increase in soybean production.Acreage i...

Post expects oilseeds production to increase slightly in the 2008/09 crop year. Soybean planted area is expected to remain at 2007/08 levels (17 million hectares). Areas planted in sunflower and peanuts are expected to increase by 5 and 10 percent, res...

CêlaVíta heeft met haar zogenoemde aardappelschilmes-inleverpunt (AIP) gratis reclame gemaakt voor haar merk voorgeschilde aardappelprodukten. Vorig week zou het eerste AIP in Hardenberg officieel worden geopend. Supermarkten en winkelketens in wit- ...

All necessary measures have been taken to remove the contaminated Ukrainian sunflower oil imported into Europe in recent weeks from the market, says the European Commission.   Most of the oil, which was contaminated with a lubricant mineral, has been d...

Environmental groups appealed to the European Union on Monday to reject applications from the biotech industry to approve one newly engineered potato variety and two corn crops. Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Europe also argued for rules to ensu...

Among the most maligned and misunderstood of vegetables, the lowly potato may be poised to save the world. Or, at least, many of the world's hungry and poor, according to the United Nations, which has declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato....

The announcement by Taypack Potatoes in Perthshire yesterday that it had cut its £32 million-a-year contract with Asda, Britain's third-largest supermarket group, was met with surprise by insiders. The company, which started up in 1986, supplies Asda w...

Burger King Holdings Inc, la segunda mayor cadena de restaurantes de hamburguesas del mundo, informó el jueves un aumento en sus utilidades del tercer trimestre fiscal, gracias a mayores ventas en restaurantes nuevos y remodelados.   La compañía, conoc...

Interpack Processess and Packaging 2008 was a source of excellent business for the 2,744 exhibitors. On few other occasions in the event’s fifty-year history has the mood in the halls been quite as exuberant, the contacts forged by companies as abundan...

La cadena de comidas rápidas sumará seis sucursales en la Argentina, después de un parate casi total. Los directivos revelaron que planean crecer en los próximos cinco años con un ritmo de hasta 10 aperturas anuales. La empresa se tomó un parate en la ...

Burger King Holdings said its first quarter earnings grew 21 percent, driven by higher sales at new restaurants. The Miami-based burger chain said it earned $41 million, or 30 cents a share, on revenue of $594 million. In the prior-year quarter, the r...