News on The Potato Supply Chain from the Americas

The National Potato Council is investigating options to restore USDA potato stocks estimates cut due to budget sequestration, including industry funding to cover the work or identifying offsetting cuts to less important potato reports.

Potandon Produce LLC announced that Kent Romrell, senior vice president of sales, will retire at the end of March after a career in produce spanning over 30 years.

Entre los datos compartidos por el entomólogo Graham Walker de Nueva Zelanda, durante su visita a la Universidad de Chile, uno de los generó más impacto hace relación con el ingreso a aquél país del psílido de la papa. La pregunta obligada: ¿es esa pla...

It appears that potato psyllids, the tiny winged insects that can spread zebra chip disease in potato fields, will overwinter in Boise, Idaho, this season, despite the city experiencing one of its coldest Januaries on record.

Una invitación a participar en una alianza para el monitoreo de la diversidad genética de las papas nativas, denominada “Iniciativa Chirapaq La Ruta del Arcoiris”, que está encabezando el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), formuló Stef De Haan, inv...

Some farmers on P.E.I. are dealing with the problem of potatoes rotting in storage this winter and growers in the western part of the province are especially hard hit.

The United States Potato Board website for consumers, Potatogoodness.com has been redesigned end 2012.

El municipio nicaragüense de Tisma logró cultivar papa de consumo en una zona cálida e inusual para producir el tubérculo, anunció la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), con el apoyo de la Fundación para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agropecuario y F...

Tim O’Connor, President and CEO of the U.S. Potato Board, Denver, CO, has accepted an offer to lead a new marketing agency dedicated to the Mexican avocado industry.

Whole Foods Market announced today at Natural Products Expo West that, by 2018, all products in its U.S. and Canadian stores must be labeled to indicate if they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Durante el último Congreso ALAP en Uberlandia (2012) se presentó el "IV Congreso Iberoemaricano de Investigación y Desarrollo en Patata – PATATA 2013”. Lamentablemente, debido a la situación económica de España y los problemas de financiación que ...

Recently the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement with Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, concluding that severe food allergies, including celiac disease (an autoimmune disorder), qualify as a disability under the Americans...

Nonpareil Farms, a supplier of Betty Crocker™ Fresh Potatoes, has announced a new strategic partnership with Associated Potato Growers Inc.

Idaho potato growers at a Monday meeting in Burley approved processing contracts with J.R. Simplot and McCain Foods that both include payment increases averaging 1.6 percent.

Boulder Canyon Natural Foods®, a leading natural snack food manufacturer is proud to announce that it has successfully enrolled its kettle-cooked potato chips in the Non-GMO Project

Twenty potato growers and industry representatives joined together to form the 2013 class of the Potato Industry Leadership Institute (PILI), an annual program jointly administered by the National Potato Council (NPC) and the United States Potato Board.

More than 160 potato growers and industry partners from across the United States met Feb. 25-28 in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the industry's most pressing federal policy priorities.

Idaho potato growers will vote Monday in Burley on contracts with McCain Foods and J.R. Simplot Co. paying a 1.6 percent average increase, according to sources involved in negotiations.