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Potato farmers are not exempt from antitrust laws that prohibit collusion, including "acreage reductions, production restrictions or collusive crop planning,"according to a federal judge. Chief U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill in Idaho has r...

Cargill today announced it will reduce its workforce by up to 2,000 of its 138,000 employees globally, a change of about 1.5 percent. The majority of the reduction will take place over the next six months worldwide. Cargill is providing affected employ...

The Wendy’s Company™ (NYSE: WEN) announced last week plans to consolidate its World Headquarters in Dublin, Ohio. As a result, the Company will close its Atlanta Restaurant Support Center operations in late 2012 and move at least 170 positions to Ohio....

For the eighth year running, Progressive Grocer magazine, a nationally acclaimed grocery and supermarket trade publication, has recognized the United States Potato Board’s (USPB’s) Retail Marketing Program with a 2011 “Category Captain,” award in the F...

Leatherhead Food Research, a leading UK-based independent research organisation, has predicted the food and drink trends set to make an impact in 2012. “2012 looks set to be one in which on-going trends will be stretched to their full potential, parti...

The dispute between workers at the potato packaging factory in Vryssoules and their employers will be discussed at the Labour Ministry on Monday. The two sides met at the ministry yesterday and relayed their views to the mediation service. The ministr...

NEPG reports North-western Europe's highest potato production in the last 10 years. This season, the quality of the stored product is a challenge. The NEPG (Northwestern European Potato Growers) published the total harvest of five major potato produc...

A strike at McCain Foods in France has expanded to a second factory. The strike started a week ago sunday at McCain’s french fry plant in Matouges. As of today, the McCain plant in Harnes is on strike as well. Employees at the French plants demand a ...

Herbert Engineering, the leaders in handling systems for the agricultural and fresh pack industries, have announced its most innovative coil cleaner yet which will be officially launched at LAMMA 2012.

Wendy’s soon could leapfrog Burger King as the second-largest burger chain in terms of U.S. market share, according to a new research note from securities analyst Mark Kalinowski of Janney Capital Markets. For years, Wendy’s has been the third-largest...

As potato prices hit unexpected low levels in Punjab, growers have asked the state government to offer freight subsidy for marketing the tuber to other states in order to prevent mounting losses. Growers also warned of throwing potato on roads if state...

Het middel 1,4Sight (1,4-Dimethylnaphthaleen) verlengt de kiemrust van aardappelen zodanig dat bijvoorbeeld ook Innovators tot juni-juli kiemvrij te bewaren zijn. Dat claimt althans BASF. Met het gebruik van huidige middelen wordt dit kiemlustige aarda...

Innovación para el Desarrollo: La Experiencia Papa Andina, es un libro que recoge 25 artículos que tratan, a partir de la experiencia de Papa Andina y sus socios, diversos aspectos de una estrategia que los centros del CGIAR y sus socios nacionales est...

Growers at the P.E.I. Potato Board's annual meeting Friday December 2 said they are feeling optimistic about the prices they will get for their potatoes this year. The prices so far are reasonable, but not high yet, said Gary Linkletter, the board's c...

Former dabur India head of innovation Vikas Mittal has joined McCain Foods India as its MD. Mittal was head of innovation at Dabur in July 2011, prior to which he was executive VP (marketing) for the personal &home care division. Mittal has also w...

Possibly the largest potato promotion in history is set to begin Dec. 17, during the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl college football game at Boise State University stadium. The promotion will celebrate the inaugural year for the Idaho potato industry’s spon...

United Potato Growers of America (UPGA) today announced that Jerry Wright will return to lead the grower-based organization as president and chief executive officer of the national federated agricultural cooperative headquartered in Salt Lake City. Wri...

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America announces ten new electric trucks will be rolling out in Orlando. These electric delivery trucks will ultimately be part of the largest planned fleet of commercial all-electric trucks in North America.