News on The Potato Supply Chain from the Americas

When the Idaho Potato Commission's CEO Frank Muir saw what happened Monday, he was 'thrilled.' The state's most famous tuber had a starring role in news coverage of a meeting between the U.S. and Russia.

Jenifer Huang McBeath of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has been researching biological controls and developing environmentally friendly methods for farmers to combat plant diseases since 1985. She never intended to switch her focus to potatoes...

According to United States Department of Agriculture’s crop production predictions, average potato yield per acre increased during the 2013 season.

In an effort to propel this upward trend into the New Year, Bayer CropScience launched its Potato Perspectives Survey during Potato Expo in San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 8-10, 2014.

Potato producers in the Pacific Northwest should once again mark their calendars for the upcoming 2014 Washington-Oregon Potato Conference to be held at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Washington

The mashed potatoes or latkes that enhance your holiday feast have taken a long path from tuber to table – in many cases, several years. A project at Cornell University could trim that time.

Herbicide-resistant weeds pose significant economic and production challenges, particularly in specialty crops such as potatoes where weed control options are limited.

Joseph Pavek bred the popular potato variety Ranger Russet and developed much of the germplasm still used by breeders today, though he retired in 1999.

While the russet potato has been a fixture on kitchen tables across America for as long as . . . well, we've had kitchen tables . . . a new variety of russet is waking up taste buds just in time for the holidays with a smoother, moister and richer taste.

McDonald's is being sucked into the vortex of bickering and conspiracy theories that has, unfortunately, become the debate over genetically engineered food products.

Megabusiness LLC of Danbury, CT is recalling Del Campo Papa seca / DRY POTATO 24x14 oz. because they contain undeclared sulfites.

El día 28 de Noviembre del presente, se realizó en la ciudad de Ipiales (Nariño), un taller donde se mostraron algunos de los posibles impactos del cambio climático (CC), en la agricultura de pequeña escala de la región.

Representantes del CIP y de varias organizaciones se reunieron en Cusco para definir el proceso de elaboracio?n de un DVD interactivo orientado a la conservacio?n de los recursos gene?ticos de las comunidades.

En 11 años, el Centro de Investigaciones, Ciencia y Tecnología de la Escuela Militar de Ingeniería (EMI) ha trabajado en más de 30 especies, entre flores y tubérculos.

Iniciativa productiva que nace por voluntad del presidente Rafael Correa cuando el año pasado afirmó que se debería trabajar para que toda la producción del Ecuador, tanto agrícola y pecuaria, tuviera genética de calidad y semillas certificadas.

Según Fedepapa, gremio que agrupa a la mayor parte de los productores de papa en Colombia, los insectos plaga de mayor importancia económica que atacan al tubérculo son la Polilla Guatemalteca, la Palomilla y el Gusano Blanco.

A new University of Idaho economic report shows potato procution costs have held steady.

El Ministro de Agricultura junto al director regional de INIA entregaron a productores de Chiloé y al alcalde de Puqueldón, material genético de la más alta calidad, con el que es posible producir más de 120 toneladas de papas nativas.

La Federación Agraria Argentina (FAA) filial Córdoba presentará en los próximos días un proyecto que incluye la instalación de una planta de fabricación de puré con capacidad para elaborar 500 kilogramos del producto por hora.