Nieuws

Más de 2.000 expositores de 45 países ya inscritos – La principal exposición mundial de técnica agrícola – Nuevo concepto de distribución según la especialidad - Programa técnico internacional (DLG). Actualmente y según datos de los organizadores de l...

Norway's potato growers have suffered from the heavy rains earlier this summer. "Rain and wind have washed and blown away the earth that covers the potatoes,"Jens Kristian Ulsrud at the Kims Norge potato chip producer at Skreia in the Toten d...

Two Potato companies - Taylor Food Group and QV Foods - have signed a five year deal with the James Hutton Institute's Mylnefield Research Service (MRS) subsidiary to continue a potato breeding programme that originally started in 2005. Taylor Food Gr...

Trends in potato prices are key indicators for potato farmers to keep track of. But average potato price trends can be calculated in a number of different ways. PEI now has become the first jurisdiction in Canada to adopt two new measures - fresh weig...

PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America business unit today recognized 110 over-the-road (OTR) drivers in the U.S. and Canada who have reached the career milestone of driving more than one million, two million or three million miles accident-free. "Fri...

Aardappeloogsten zijn ongeveer halverwege. De waterproblematiek valt grosso modo mee, behalve de vertraging die het oplevert. De oogst van pootaardappelen is in het Noorden minder ver dan in de rest van het land. Agrico-directeur Jan van Hoogen schat ...

The recent General Assembly of the United Nations was a landmark event as it was only the second time the UN had met to discuss health issues - with the last health meeting being held in 2001 and focused on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The United Nations...

Yum! Brands Inc. agreed to sell its Long John Silver’s restaurants to LJS Partners LLC and the A&W All-American Food chain to A Great American Brand LLC for undisclosed prices as it focuses on expanding in China. Definitive agreements have been re...

Next month, Tyrrells Crisps are launching a Winter Seasonal limited edition seasoning in time for the winter period, Sour Cream &Roasted Garlic, which will be on shelves from October to February and will be priced at 69p for 40g and £1.89 for 150g ...

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG), one of North America's leading packaged food companies, today released its 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report, providing a detailed look at the company's efforts.

Kerry Group, the global ingredients &flavours and consumer foods group, today confirmed that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cargill’s global flavours business. Cargill Flavor Systems with annual revenues of approximately US$200m is be...

Door het droge voorjaar is de knolzetting matig en de maatsortering dit jaar grof. Grote aardappelen beschadigen sneller tijdens het rooien, waardoor het risico op schilbrand groter is. Schilbrand wordt veroorzaakt door chloor-profam. Deze werkzame st...

Boulder Canyon™ Natural Foods, the fastest-growing kettle chip brand in the United States (IRI data 52 week ending 6/12/2011), introduces a new line of vegetable snacks at the Natural Products Expo East this week in Baltimore. Boulder Canyon's Garde...

Dutch potato starch supplier Avebe said it is investigating whether legal steps can be taken in response to China’s decision last week to stick countervailing duties on top of existing anti-dumping duties on potato starch imports from the EU. Johan Ru...

Orville Redenbacher's® Gourmet® Popping Corn, a brand of ConAgra Foods, is shaking up microwave popcorn by adding a flavorful twist to one of America's favorite snack foods. The leading popcorn brand has introduced Orville Redenbacher's Flavors, indiv...

China aspira a convertirse en el mayor productor mundial de envases para fines de 2012, según un nuevo estudio de la firma de asesoramiento financiero Catalyst Corporate Finance . La nueva investigación sugiere que las ambiciones chinas modificaran el...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified trans fats and salt intake amongst its list of low-cost interventions to counter the rise of diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung disease. Non-communicable diseases like heart attack...

Just as the U.S. economy stalled in the second quarter of the year, so did restaurant industry traffic, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. NPD's foodservice market research shows that visits to U.S. restaurants slipped by 0....