News on The Potato Supply Chain from Northern America

Toronto-based EarthFresh Foods Inc. announced Wednesday plans to spend $5.5 million on a new potato washing and packaging plant. The project will see 80 current jobs moved with another 20 to be added as production hits full stride. The Ontario governm...

"Focus on Potato"of the Plant Management Network has published a new webcast:Practical Management of Powdery Scab   by Robert D. Davidson, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Colorado State University Fort Colli...

The family of New Brunswick farmer Henk Tepper, who is languishing in a Lebanese jail, won a short reprieve for the family farm in an Edmundston courtroom Monday. A judge of the Court of Queen's Bench granted an extension to creditor protection until ...

The combination of high temperatures and high water levels is causing concern for potato growers. "Farmers are right now moving into irrigation mode,"explains Brian Wilson, potato specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. "With the hot weat...

Utilizando el formato que ofrece Storify, el último número del Boletín de la Papa reune el material audiovisual y periodístico de varios temas de actualidad relacionados con el cultivo de la papa a nivel regional. Entre estos se destacan la realización...

Esta publicación está basada en el taller "Fortalecimiento de las Cadenas de Valor de papa en los países en desarrollo", realizado en noviembre de 2008, en Roma, Italia, y auspiciado por la Organización para la Alimentación y la Agricultura d...

The J. R. Simplot Company's Plant Sciences business announces Innate™ Technology, the all-native biotechnology platform for improving crops, leading to new, better and healthier foods.

Los investigadores, agrupados en el Consorcio de la secuenciación del genoma de la patata, han determinado que esta planta, el tercer alimento básico más importante tras el trigo y el arroz, tiene al menos 39.000 genes, casi el doble de los que posee e...

In Washington, potato late blight has spread to four fields in block 1, just north of the Tri-Cities. Washington State University plant pathologist Dennis Johnson provided the latest control recommendations on the Late Blight Hotline.Johnson;“In this a...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes Dionisio Arturo Pèrez-Jàcome Friscione joined July 6 in Mexico City to sign agreements resolving the dispute over long-haul, cross-border trucking services between ...

The Canadian Potato Council (CPC) is challenging the conclusions of a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on potatoes and potato consumption, which wrongly depicts potatoes as a hindrance to weight loss and maintaining a healt...

The United States Potato Board believes a study released in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine perpetuates unfortunate myths and misconceptions about the potato.

In a series of three separate studies looking at how changes in multiple dietary and other lifestyle factors relate to long-term weight gain, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that modest changes in specific foods and beverages, physical activity, TV-watching, and sleep duration were strongly linked with long-term weight gain.

The 92nd annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant Show showed positive growth in attendee and exhibitor numbers

A lawyer for a New Brunswick potato farmer jailed in Lebanon is calling on the federal justice minister to charge his client.

Summer potato supplies will be short, but they should be sufficient to fill retail shelves until fall harvests begin.

Volgens het NAPMN (North American Potato Market News) zal het areaal van de hoofdoogst in Amerika met 6,3% toenemen t.o.v. 2010. Naar verwachting zal het totale areaal uitkomen op 380.000 hectare tegen 357.500 hectare in 2010. Het areaal van de hoofdo...

United Potato Growers of America sponsored a conference last week in Bloomington, MN to discuss the transition from the summer to fall crop.  The meeting was open to all growers and shippers including non-United members.