Potato News

Potato cultivators and traders in 8 districts of Rangpur division (Bangladesh) are in a dilemma as they are about to lose their investments despite a bumper production of their produce last season. In the hope of earning better profits, farmers and tr...

Aunt Bessie’s has announced a new variety to its market leading Frozen Potato range – Special Roast Potatoes basted in duck fat. The range has been developed in response to consumer demand for premium roast potatoes, following a number of chefs bastin...

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 225 points in September 2011, down 2 percent, or 4.5 points, from August. The FAO Food Price Index is only 13 points below the peak of 238 reached in February 2011, though still higher than its September 2010 ...

Golden birch trees marked the edge of Greg Kalal's fields, but the dentist-turned-farmer was more interested in hues beneath the soil on his land south of Mount McKinley. Among the thousands of colorful potatoes — from yellow German Butterballs to Mag...

De Belgapomprijs is de meest gehanteerde prijs, waargenomen op de vorige werkdag voor Bintje, voor verwerking tot diepgevroren aardappelproducten , veldgewas 35 mm+, frietgeschikt, af producent, los op wagen, voor onmiddellijke levering/ophaling. Vo...

Het Agri Investment Fund van de Belgische Boerenbond wordt aandeelhouder van de beursgenoteerde groep PinguinLutosa. Die is gespecialiseerd in diepvriesgroenten en aardappelverwerking. Het Fund neemt daartoe de participatie van 1,057 miljoen aandelen ...

Directly advertising food items to children worries many parents and health care providers, and the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association have expressed concern about the negative impact of advertising on children's ...

McCain Foods is hopeful union discussions will resolve pay disputes before further industrial action hampers production at the Ballarat plant. Union representatives are expected to meet with McCain on Monday next week ahead of possible strikes on Tues...

De Antwerpse scheepvaartagent en bevrachter TRS keert terug naar Vlissingen met een verkeer van ruim 100.000 ton aardappelen. De lading is bestemd voor de Russische markt. De Russen eten momenteel hun eigen oogst op. Vanaf eind oktober beginnen ze aar...

A lawyer for a New Brunswick potato farmer jailed in Lebanon, Henk Tepper, has until the end of the month to present a plan to keep his client's farming businesses afloat and pay off creditors.

Potato farmers on P.E.I. are worried about their fields after record rainfall in many parts of the province Wednesday followed by some hail and snow Thursday. There was plenty of harvesting equipment sitting in fields across P.E.I. waiting for the lan...

Planted during April's favourable conditions, the crop got off to a good start, however, drought in May and early June caused significant delays. Rain throughout the second half of June helped the crop, leading to decreasing potato prices as well as to...

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division today celebrated the success of its most ambitious environmental sustainability project to-date by announcing that its Casa Grande, Arizona, facility has reached 'near net zero'. 

Una investigación del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), descrita en el último número de la revista Nature (1), ha descubierto el gen responsable de inducir la tuberización en patatas, el StSP6A. Su hallazgo ha sido posible gracias...

Doris Demers, the nutrition program director for York and Kittery schools, had a blunt response today when asked about proposed federal guidelines limiting white potato servings as part of the federally funded school lunch program. "It's ridiculo...

De uitzonderlijk mooie weersomstandigheden van de voorbije twee weken hebben een snelle oogst van de aardappelen toegelaten. Men neemt aan dat op dit ogenblik 80 tot 90 % van de Belgische aardappelen gerooid zijn. In Nederland hebben de overvloedige...

Record numbers are expected at the potato industry’s event of the year, BP2011, which will be held at Harrogate in November. Entry will be free of charge and amateur growers can attend, although the event is not designed for them. Students thinking o...

Recently the USDA has published a revised overview of the United States Potato Industry statistics for harvest 2010. This report contains a wealth of data on the production per state and utilisation, for which we refer to the report itself.