Potato News from Canada

October 18, 2007

McCain sponsors the United Nations International Year of the Potato 2008

McCain Foods Limited announced its sponsorship of the United Nations (UN) International Year of the Potato 2008, at the official launch today in New York.The United Nations General Assembly has declared that the potato should be a major component in st...

October 17, 2007

Canadian Foodservice growth stalls in 2007

Despite rising incomes and the lowest unemployment rate in 33 years, Canada’s commercial foodservice industry grew by just 3.0% in the first seven months of 2007 compared to a solid 5.1% sales increase in the first seven months of 2006. Unfavourable we...

October 16, 2007

PEI testing potatoes for wart

A virus that crippled Prince Edward Island's potato industry for six months in 2000 may have returned. A single spud from a quarantined processing field near Kensington is being tested for potato wart, a disease that poses no threat to humans but leave...

Cargill highlighted its focus on Canola expansion

October 15, 2007

Cargill reports Q1 earnings surge

Agricultural and ingredients firm Cargill has said earnings for its first quarter shot up, benefiting from a "new level of market volatility". Cargill, which is privately held, said net earnings reached $917m for the 2008 first quarter ended...

September 13, 2007

Cofounder McCain Foods to receive Lifetime Business achievement award

Wallace McCain, chairman of the board of MapleLeaf Foods Inc. and co-founder of one of the world's largest frozen food companies McCain Foods, will receive the coveted Ernst &Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R)2007 Ontario Lifetime Achievement Award...

August 31, 2007

McCain Foods (Canada) Portage la Prairie crowns best growers

First place at the McCain Champion Grower competition came as a bit of a shock for this year’s winners. “I guess we’re certainly surprised,” said Dan Sawatzky from Sawatzky Enterprises of Mac-Gregor, named 2007 Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Foo...

August 31, 2007

After being largely ignored, root vegetables making a comeback

Root vegetables seem to be coming out of a long hiatus and anyone who has tasted roasted roots like parsnips, beets, carrots and rutubaga will no doubt cheer. "When I was growing up, before we got all this imported produce coming into the countr...

August 29, 2007

Cargill to double canola production in Canada

Cargill is to build a second canola processing plant in Canada in a move to meet growing demand for tans fat-free oil, the firm announced yesterday.The new plant will be located adjacent to Cargill's existing operation in Clavet, Saskatchewan, and is ...

August 17, 2007

Cavendish Farms outlines plans for biofuel plant

The french-fry producer Cavendish Farms has detailed plans to build a biofuel plant in the central P.E.I. town of Kensington. At an information session in the town this week, the Irving-owned company outlined how the plant would recycle spent cooking o...

July 01, 2007

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