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Everyone in your kitchen knows how to cook frozen french fries, right? With the extraordinary turnover in kitchen staff driven by the pandemic, fry-cooking competency isn’t a given any more. Simplot shared this extensive advice and a lot of tips!

Ruffles and KFC are teaming up for the third consecutive year, and they're bringing an all-new flavour and crunch to the table.

Idahoan Foods is expanding its mashed potato product line to meet increasing consumer demand for value sizes and dietary-specific options.

Very late and difficult planting conditions and emergence problems on a large scale are cause of concern in some of the main production regions in North-western Europe.

In October 2023, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack launched the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (RAPP) to build demand for American food and farm exports in high-potential markets around the world.

McCain Foods is embarking on an expansion of its network of Innovation Hub farms across North America.

With a focus on making fries and making strides, Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. issued its fifth annual Global Sustainability Report, providing updates on the company’s performance against key sustainability and people initiatives during its fiscal year 2023.

In a year marked by escalating climate emergencies and global calls for sustainable solutions, Regenagri, a global leader in regenerative agriculture, has announced impressive performance in its Impact Report has been launched.

J&J Green Paper has announced that its revolutionary JANUS® barrier technology is being used by Arcos Dorados Holdings, Inc., the world’s largest independent McDonald’s franchisee and a local packaging supplier in Argentina.

In a first of its kind initiative by any food processor on the Indian subcontinent, the biggest potato processor from the country, Iscon Balaji Foods, has organised a month-long exhaustive farmers’ training programme to share the best agricultural practices for sustainability in the value chain.

Vultus, in collaboration with Lyckeby and Hushållningssällskapet, has developed a satellite image analysis algorithm for precision fertilization in potato farming, demonstrating superior accuracy in predicting leaf nitrogen content in Swedish field trials.

McCain Foods Canada has expanded their category offerings by launching two new flavours of McCain Medleys.

La sexta edición del evento que reúne a productores y asociados al sector celebró con éxito su sexta edición.

The OptiClean initiative, supported by a DKK 5.5 million (USD 790,000) grant from Denmark's Green Development and Demonstration Programme (GUDP), aims to tackle the problem of half-rotten carrots in consumers’ vegetable drawers.

Indian-origin premium frozen food brand Hungritos wrapped up the first half of the current calendar with a hugely successful SFH Food and Hotel Seoul 2024, in June. 

Droughts and flooding have become so common in some of the poorest places on Earth that the land can no longer sustain crops, the director of the World Food Programme’s global office has said.

La falta de agua durante los últimos años ha hecho a una reducción en la producción y a una perdida estimada de 250 millones de pesos.

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