Potato News

Dutch start-up Caenator, in collaboration with StartLife and Wageningen University & Research Centre, presented a new fully automatic french fry vending machine.

Frito-Lay is bringing the Canadian favorite Ruffles 'All Dressed' Chips to the US for a limited time - and some funny videos to go with that.

The discovery of needles and nails in potatoes in a suspected case of food tampering earlier this year in Atlantic Canada have heightened the awareness of consumers and media alike. The latest case, reported by CBC Nova Scotia, is the finding of metal object in mashed potatoes in a Halifax restaurant.

Potato grower R.D. Offutt has agreed to scale back its expansion plans in Minnesota in a deal with regulators to protect sensitive groundwater and pine forests in central Minnesota.

In Taiwan, the Food and Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health and Welfare is taking steps to remove artificial trans fat from Taiwan’s food supply chain.

Las explotaciones del tubérculo están en situación muy crítica en el Sudeste de la Provincia y en el país en general, con dos perdedores claros en los extremos de la cadena: productor y consumidor. El plan de gobierno brilla por su ausencia.

Dutch processing equipment manufacturer Florigo, since March of this year a tna company, takes its processing capabilities to a new level with the company’s breakthrough high performance 25 t/h fryer for french fries.

En el marco de la campaña “La papa tiene lo suyo”, el MinAgricultura, Aurelio Iragorri Valencia, resaltó la importancia de este producto en la dieta alimenticia de los colombianos y les planteó a los ciudadanos el reto de aumentar el consumo por persona al año.

Accurately weigh 0.5 to 50 gram portions at up to 120 per minute using the new Ishida Micro multihead weigher from Heat and Control, Inc.

Armenian potato growers are able to export up to 10 thousand metric tons of seed potatoes to Russia, Hrachya Berberyan, head of the Agrarian and Peasant Union said recently.

With digging season just around the corner, eastern Idaho potato farmers say they are optimistic they will improve on a middling 2014 harvest this year.

Research shows that crops with stacks of two or more resistance genes from closely related species, introduced into the crop via for instance genetic engineering, combined with the simultaneous introduction of resistance management, can ensure the long-term resistance of these plants to economically significant and aggressive diseases.

Today, Black Gold Farms has started the harvest of its red potatoes in the Red River Valley

Key Technology announces the appointment of Randy Unterseher to the position of Senior Director of Aftermarket for North America and the Intercontinental region, which includes Latin America, Asia Pacific and Australia/New Zealand.

The potato harvest in Tirol (Austria) has started: from now on the great tasting „Tiroler Speckigen“ and the „Tiroler Mehligen“ with Quality seal „Qualität Tirol“ are available in all branches of the retailer SPAR throughout Austria.

In the Indian State of Assam ten onion- and potato retailers have been arrested because they charged a price for their vegetables above the legal limit.

The North-western European Potato Growers (NEPG) expect the total potato production (excluding seed and starch potatoes) of this year' s harvest to amount to 24.5 million tonnes. This is 14.1 percent below the potato production last year and 2.9 percent below the 5-year average.

With a major new campaign to promote fresh potatoes across Britain and Ireland about to break, AHDB Potatoes and Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board) are calling on industry to get behind it and help change the way consumers think about potatoes.