Potato News

Burger King Corp. (NYSE:BKC) announced today that all BURGER KING(R) restaurants nationwide are now cooking with trans fat free cooking oils. Furthermore, by Nov. 1, 2008, all BURGER KING(R) menu ingredients will contain zero grams artificial trans f...

PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP ) announced today that it has made significant progress toward its long-term environmental sustainability goals, which include reducing water consumption by 20 percent, electricity consumption by 20 percent and fuel consumption by 25...

McDonald's Corp will speed up its expansion drive in central and eastern Europe to tap into the region's vibrant growth and increasingly affluent middle class, its No. 2 official said.Over the last several years, McDonald's has not grown significantly ...

Wisconsin potato farmers produced 28.2 million hundredweight of potatoes during the 2007 growing year on 64,000 acres. The state's agriculture department says 94-percent of that crop was sold as either fresh market, processing or seed potatoes. The rem...

A new healthy eating campaign in Polish schools is to deprive kids of their favourite snacks of crisps and candy being sold at the school shop.Poland’s Chief Sanitary Inspectorate is preparing a revolution in snacks on offer at shops in Polish schools:...

Potato growers on Prince Edward Island affected by "extreme wet weather"can now share up to $12.4 million in federal/provincial aid through the AgriRecovery program.AgriRecovery, one of the programs under the federal government's Growing Forw...

Post forecasts production of major oilseeds at 8.1 million metric tons (MMT), including 6.7 MMT of sunflowerseeds, 680,000 metric tons (MT) of soybeans, and 720,000 MT of rapeseeds. Russia's imports of these three oilseeds will be 450,000 MT, including...

Tyrrells' latest adventure into the world of innovative and mouth-watering flavours delivers nothing short of a local match made in heaven. ‘Dorothy Goodbody Ale &Mature Cheddar Cheese' is the latest new winter seasonal potato chip flavour from Tyr...

Het bedrijf Indinox uit Lokeren wil kleinschalige productie-installaties maken voor biodiesel op basis van frituurvet. Maar vanwege "onvolkomenheden in de wetgeving"werd besloten om de proefinstallatie over te brengen naar Estland. In een rea...

At AGRANA, the international sugar, starch and fruit group, the first half of the 2008|09 financial year was defined by high raw material and energy prices. The resulting decrease in margins, along with one-time expenses for a write- down on apple ju...

When the largest potato processor in Norway, Hoff Norske Potetindustrier, began searching for a new sorter for their French fry line last year, they approached Key Technology. They considered several options and selected Key’s Automatic Defect Removal ...

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) today announced that its U.S. divisions, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver’s and A&W All-American Food, will become the first national restaurant chains to begin voluntarily placing product ...

In a world record breaking attempt, Canadians Cloe Whittaker (22) and Tyson Jerry (24) are taking a 45,000 Km road trip in a van powered by the waste oil from French fries.They will launch their Driven to Sustain adventure on Wednesday October 1 from M...

Branston Ltd, the UK’s largest supplier of potatoes, is now fully ISO 14001 accredited.The company, which has a handling capacity in excess of 400,000 tonnes a year, secured the standard at its South West operation earlier this month, which means all o...

The Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), near Dundee, hopes to map chromosome four of the root vegetable. The scientists would then know where genes responsible for colour, shape, and disease resistance are positioned. The new research is part of a...

Europatat, the European Union of the Potato Trade, has launched a new website which can be consulted via the address www.europatat.eu or www.europatat.org. This website contains all information on the scope of activities of this seed and ware potato tr...

Veenkoloniale akkerbouwers dreigen hun bedrijfstoeslagen kwijt te raken bij een al te drastische omschakeling van het EU-landbouwbeleid.Met die waarschuwing kwam Avebe-voorzitter Hans Hoekman vandaag naar de Tweede Kamer. Een Kamercommissie belegde een...

Malaysia's crude palm oil production rose 2.5 percent to 1.6 MMT in August. Despite an increase in crude palm oil output, stronger palm oil exports resulted in a slight increase in carryout stocks to 1.8 MMT at the end of August. Weaker overseas demand...