News On French Fries and Potato Specialties

Wondering who made the french fries for Sochi - fried to a nice GOLDEN colour - the colour most craved for by all athletes and their supporters?

The Potato Marketing Association of North America held a special spring meeting this past week in Las Vegas, NV to discuss progress on the 2014 pre-season potato contract negotiations.

McCain Foods agriculture director John Jackson in Australia has admitted the company’s relationship with the region’s potato growers has been damaged in recent years.

McCain Foods CIO Roman Coba reports on the developments in McCain's Business Intelligence tools

McCain Foods GB brings the 'Chips' marked sweater starring in its commercial to retail clothing chain Primark

A market that's growing 30% annually, and can grow even faster, a business big enough to accommodate giant western MNCs and small Indian startups, a supply chain that allows mouth-watering margins to all players and a product that many consumers, adults or children, find addictive — selling frozen French fries in India is a sizzling business that's set to sizzle even more.

With its annual exports of approximately 418,000 tons, Flandria is Europe’s biggest vegetable brand. You can get to know the products and sixteen fruit and vegetable suppliers at Fruit Logistica.

Bioversity International está llevando a cabo una encuesta para evaluar las perspectivas en todo el mundo sobre los cultivos tolerantes al crecimiento bajo condiciones de estrés .

Agristo signed an agreement with West Coast Fine Foods for the distribution of its frozen potato Products in India

Key Technology announces the availability of its powerful potato strips Sort-to-Grade™ feature for all belt-driven G6 optical sorters – Manta®, Optyx®, and Tegra®.

Chip Week has become one of the biggest awareness weeks in the calendar, but, as important as it is, it is still only one aspect of the work that Potato Council does to support the sector.

The National Restaurant Association’s annual What’s Hot culinary forecast predicts menu trends for the coming year. For 2014, the NRA surveyed nearly 1,300 professional chefs to find out what the hottest menu trends will be.

Simplot processing potato farmers in Tasmania have accepted a $10 per tonne price cut for crops deliverable in 2014.

Profits have fallen by more than £10m at McCain Foods GB after Britain's market-leading frozen chip maker was hit by a severe shortage of quality potatoes in the UK as a direct result of the extreme weather conditions in the 2012 growing season.

McDonald's is being sucked into the vortex of bickering and conspiracy theories that has, unfortunately, become the debate over genetically engineered food products.

There's nothing quite like the mouth-watering taste and smell of an oven-baked jacket potato, so McCain has specially designed a 'Jacket Taxi' which did just that.

No matter how you slice it, dice it or cook it, the humble potato has an almost revered place on Canadian restaurant menus.

A number of southwestern Idaho communities are bracing for the planned closure of three Simplot plants.