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maart 16, 2012

U.S. Potato Board turns 40, earns praise from USDA

The U.S. Potato Board’s annual meeting March 15 started off on with some good news from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bob Keeney, deputy administrator of fruit and vegetable programs for the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service gave the board, ...

maart 16, 2012

Debut at SNAXPO: Filsorb XP20 oil purifying product

Filsorb XP20, a new oil-purifying additive reduces operating costs and is now available to the North American snack food market. The patent-pending formula developed by Crystal Filtration has been proven to clean cooking oil and lower free fatty acids...

Russian Banana (Courtesy Idaho Potato Commission)

maart 14, 2012

Idaho increases specialty potato market share

Russet potatoes still dominate markets, but specialties are gaining.

maart 12, 2012

Natural color solutions for snack foods: visit Chr. Hansen at SNAXPO

Chr. Hansen invites snack professionals attending the SNAXPO trade show in Phoenix, Arizona, US March 17-19, 2012 to visit their booth to see its full range of natural colors for snack foods and to discuss the opportunities in natural colors with leadi...

maart 12, 2012

AUSVEG Potato Industry seminar

AUSVEG, the peak industry body for vegetable and potato growers, will be holding a potato industry seminar in Tasmania for growers, processors and other interested industry parties. The seminar will be the first in a series of seminars that AUSVEG wil...

maart 12, 2012

Irish retailers and merchants challenged to return viable prices for growers

Addressing the National Potato Conference in Dublin today (Wed), IFA President John Bryan said the current loss-making situation for potato growers was unsustainable. He laid down a clear challenge to the retailers and merchants to address the serious ...

maart 11, 2012

Oeraardappelras geadopteerd door Stichting De Bildtse Aardappelweken

Stichting De Bildtse Aardappelweken heeft een oeraardappelras geadopteerd. Voor 5000 dollar is de stichting eigenaar geworden van oerras 700247, een aardappel uit Peru. De genen van deze oerpieper liggen opgeslagen in de Wereldzaadbank op Spitsbergen...

maart 11, 2012

Topkok Marco Westmaas aardappelambassadeur

Topkok Marco Westmaas wordt aardappelambassadeur. (Click to enlarge) Aardappelambassadeur Marco Westmaas Voor de Nederlandse Aardappel Organisatie NAO zal hij in 2012 zijn innovatieve talenten inzetten om de aardappel als modern en onmisbaar...

maart 08, 2012

Idaho farmers reject processors' contract offers

Idaho potato growers have rejected processors' contract offers, convinced they were insufficient to cover rising input costs and prevention of the emerging disease zebra chip.

maart 06, 2012

New Leaders Trained at 2012 Potato Industry Leadership Institute

Eighteen potato growers and industry representatives from across the United States joined together to form the 2012 class of the Potato Industry Leadership Institute (PILI), an annual program designed to identify, develop and cultivate new leaders within the potato industry.

maart 04, 2012

Belgapom notering daalt verder naar € 35,00/ton

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. Voor...

maart 04, 2012

RUCIP 2012: New rules for potato trade in Europe

On the 1st of March new Rules and Practices of the Inter-European Trade in Potatoes (RUCIP) will start to apply. The RUCIP European Committee, composed of the European associations Europatat (Potato Trade), EUPPA (Potato Processing) and Intercoop Euro...

idaho potato commission 75th anniversary

maart 03, 2012

Idaho Potato Commission celebrates 75 year anniversary

The Idaho Potato Commission is one of the oldest and longest running commodity groups in the country.In 1937, a group of people from the burgeoning Idaho® potato industry joined together to form the Idaho Fruit and Vegetable Advertising Association, la...

maart 03, 2012

Congreso Mundial de la Papa: Taller de sanidad vegetal en el cultivo de papa

El congreso, que tendrá lugar en mayo, ofrece algo para todos involucrados en el sector de la patata, según el director de Potato Council el Dr. Rob Clayton. El WPC (World Potato Congress) tendrá lugar en el magnífico Centro Internacional de Conferenc...

maart 02, 2012

Europatat congress 2012 – The potato is coming home!

Europatat and the Dutch Potato Association (NAO) are pleased to announce the opening for registrations for the annual Europatat Congress, taking place in The Hague (The Netherlands) from 24 to 26 May 2012.

maart 01, 2012

Space age agronomy on show at the World Potato Congress

Satellite technology developed during the cold war is set to deliver state-of-the-art crop monitoring systems to help growers improve agronomy and drive up profits. Although the technology dates back several decades, its capabilities for remote sensing...

februari 29, 2012

Intervention in Swiss potato market averts price collapse

The 2011 potato growing season in Switzerland was a special one. "It was summer in the spring, it was fall in the summer and it was summer in the fall"is how the season was described by Ruedi Fischer, president of the Vereinigung der Schweize...

februari 29, 2012

Potato Council Storage Forums to take place in East and West of England

Assess store suitability before using CIPC, urges Adrian Cunnington, head of Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research (SBCSR), who will be offering tips on how to follow best practice at the Potato Council Storage Forum East on March 1 and the Storage F...