Potato News

Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE: INGR), a leading global provider of ingredient solutions to diversified industries, announced today that it has successfully completed the acquisition of Penford Corporation, a U.S.-based leader in specialty ingredients for food and non-food applications.

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) announced the winners of its 2015 Sustainable Development Awards yesterday, an internal awards program that drives and rewards imaginative approaches to sustainability and produces bottom line business results.

Lay's, one of the marquee brands from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, today announced a last call for submissions in its search for the next great potato chip flavor as part of the (United States) Lay's 'Do Us A Flavor' contest.

Potato farming brothers Aaron Johnson of Northwood and Derek Johnson of Vancouver, B.C., will spend time in federal prison in the Federal Prison Camp in Duluth, Minn., and are jointly responsible for restitution of nearly $1 million because of crop insurance fraud.

Aldi’s reputation could be in tatties after a customer opened a packet of crisps bought in store and found nothing but a whole potato inside.

Key Technology announces the expansion of its global customer service and support.

En septiembre se empiezan a sembrar lotes tempranos de papa en la provincia de Buenos Aires. Cómo la temperatura del suelo es muy baja y los niveles de humedad son variables, siempre estárán latentes las posibilidades de ataque de diferentes enfermedades. Son diversos los productos que existen en el mercado. En éste artículo se presentan algunos de ellos con sus características principales.

The Potato harvest in Norway in 2014 was large. The large surplus of potatoes for consumption now will be partly processed into starch.

Provincial Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Farrukh Javed has said that Pakistan is capable of exporting up to one million tons of potato because of its bumper crop this year.

El pasado fin de semana, la llegada de la papa a varios mercados agrícolas de La Habana provocó reyertas que recordaron el desespero de los años más difíciles del Período Especial. Horas después de finalizadas las trifulcas, era posible comprar papa en aquellos mismos lugares, pero de mano de los avispados que especulaban con el producto.

Experts from TOMRA Sorting Food will be on hand at AUSPACK 2015 to advise visitors about the organisation's wide range of state-of-the-art sensor-based sorting and peeling systems.

Lamb Weston / Meijer, one of the top three producers of processed potato products in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has published its third sustainability report.

Colorado potato beetles are a dreaded pest of potatoes all over the world. Now, scientists from the Max Planck Institutes of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam-Golm and Chemical Ecology in Jena have shown that potato plants can be protected from herbivory using RNA interference (RNAi).

Supermarketguru Phil Lempert on Target's focus on Organic.

Potato farmers in Deesa, Gujarat are concerned because there is not enough potato storage space for the large harvest.

Of the more than 100 diseases of potato, bacterial ring rot is one of the few zero-tolerance pests. If just one seed potato on a farm is found to have this disease, no seed on that farm can be certified.

Popchips inc., the innovative popped snack company, today announced two new flavor innovations at the Natural Products Expo West trade show in Anaheim, California.

Supplier of food packaging and processing solutions tna has announced the acquisition of leading food processing specialist Florigo International B.V., adding Florigo’s range of continuous snack and french fry lines to tna's equipment line-up.