Potato News from the Americas

The Prince Edward Island Potato Industry '... hasn't focused on the belly aching, financial or emotional challenges...' resulting from the potato tampering incidents, that are still unresolved. 'Instead food safety has continued to be the highest priority ...' says Greg Donald, general manager of the P.E.I. potato board.

Kraft Heinz says it is cutting about 2,500 jobs in the United States and Canada as part of its plan to slash costs after the food companies combined.

Heat and Control, Inc. will display the latest examples of its range of equipment for weighing, packaging, product inspection, seasoning application, controls, and processing in Booth C-3627 at Pack Expo Las Vegas, Sept. 28 – 30

The latest Focus on Potato webcast, titled “Best Management Tactics and Fungicide Resistance in Early Blight and Brown Spot” highlights the importance of measures to mitigate fungicide resistance, particularly when applied and repeatedly used on a single site.

El objetivo del Plan de Siembra de Semilla Nacional es cumplir con la demanda de este rubro que aumenta en el mes de diciembre.

Snyder’s - Lance, Inc. Reports Results for Second Quarter 2015

A fire chief credits quick action by employees for a short interruption of work at a McCain potato processing plant in Plover, Wisconsin.

The National Potato Council awards its 2015-16 Academic Scholarship to Shunping Ding, a PhD. student in Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Badger Common’Tater, a leading source of news, education and highlights of Wisconsin’s potato and vegetable industry is now available online.

Sin ayuda de las Secretarías de Gobierno se encuentran cerca de 300 productores de papa en comunidades de las faldas del Volcán Pico de Orizaba; la causa, no hay apoyos para este producto que es el sostén de cientos de familias.

After receiving almost 950,000 flavour submissions, Lay's Canada has revealed the four finalist flavours for this year's Do Us a Flavour Tastes of Canada contest

Representatives from McCain Foods are excited about a new project under way in Aroostook County that has some farmers planting their usual acreage of potatoes right on top of a bed of winter rye, barley or oats.

TOMRA Sorting Food will exhibit its wide range of innovative solutions for food sorting and peeling at two of the industry’s largest trade shows – PROCESS EXPO and PACK EXPO.

Las indemnizaciones pagadas por pólizas contratadas durante la temporada agrícola 2014-2015 (abril-mayo) alcanzaron la suma de $613 millones (aprox. un millón de dólares) de pesos en la región de La Araucanía, entregando un promedio de $900.000 pesos por agricultor, lo que les permitió cubrir sus costos y poder mantenerse en el sector, de acuerdo a cifras entregadas por el Comité de Seguros del Agro (Agroseguros).

Investigadores del Instituto de Ecología (INECOL) logran disminuir con un plaguicida denominado bionematicida un gusano llamado nematodo dorado, el cual es responsable de la baja producción de papa en México.

La variedad Elbe es producto de una investigación que realizó la Universidad de Costa Rica por una década. El nuevo tubérculo es de fácil industrialización.

The most recent report of a metal object found in a bag of potatoes appears to be of a different nature than previous incidents, say RCMP and the P.E.I. Potato Board.potato bag in which watch strap pin was found

The National Potato Council (NPC) and the United States Potato Board (USPB) are accepting applications for the Potato Industry Leadership Institute (PILI) class of 2016.