News on The Potato Supply Chain from the Americas

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...

A project at the University of Maine to produce new varieties of potatoes that can stand up to disease while giving Maine growers new marketing opportunities recently received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Researchers and farmers across the region begin judging Monday in an annual potato beauty contest. The annual Pacific Northwest Tri-State Potato Tour determines what potatoes to plant in the future. Over the next week, farmers and researchers will tra...

El concejal Jorge Boasso presentó una iniciativa para reemplazar al gasoil utilizado por el transporte público por este combustible ecológico. El proyecto establece un sistema de recolección del aceite vegetal usado por comercios y viviendas y luego el...

J.R. Simplot Co. and ConAgra Foods (Lamb Weston) have both agreed to hefty price increases for 2009 crop spuds, representatives for Potato Growers of Washington and the Southern Idaho Potato Cooperative said.For growers, the new contracts mean an overa...

Virgo Publishing announced this week that PreventASe™ from DSM Food Specialties will receive the Food Product Design Scientific Excellence Award at SupplySide West, Oct. 22 to 24 in Las Vegas. Ingredient suppliers and technology providers with new ingr...

Anualmente, Bolivia produce alrededor de 750 mil toneladas de papa, cuya totalidad va a abastecer el mercado interno. Sin embargo, un 15 por ciento de esta producción se pierde por diferentes problemas de postcosecha, según advierte la Fundación Proinp...

The potato crop in the Red River Valley is said to be the best in a long time, both in production and in quality of the spuds.The government says the potato acreage of less than 80,000 acres is down 15 percent from last year and the lowest since the mi...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board held a news conference today to outline the initiatives it has taken to improve financial returns for potato farmers. Potato farmers have experienced severe financial losses over the past few years due to low price...

Duane Maatz has resigned as president of the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association, East Grand Forks, Minnesota, to become the executive director of the Wisconsin Potato &Vegetable Growers Association, Antigo, Wisconsin.

The P.E.I. Potato Board came flying to its own defence and to the defence of big french fry companies Monday after a well-known Island farmer and agriculture activist accused the companies last week of undercutting potato prices and the board of being ...

In the first of a series on sustainability, FoodNavigator looks at the value of sustainable practices and reporting and how it can improve a company’s standing among shareholders, customers and peers.

Big french fry companies are undercutting P.E.I. potato prices by flooding the open market with cheap potatoes, says an sland potato farmer and a potato marketer.Jim Read, of J.B. Read Marketing Inc., and Danny Henricken, whose family has been growing ...

Thanks in part to a large percentage of high-quality, No. 1-graded product, markets for new-crop russet potatoes are continuing where markets left off at the end of the storage season: red hot.On Sept. 9, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported pri...

Idaho potato acres are down, and the next few weeks could determine whether yields are down, too. Development of the crop was about two weeks behind during the early part of the growing season because of a long, cold spring.The potato crop has caught u...

Miguel Quevedo,especialista en papa de la Dirección General de Promoción Agraria (DGPA): Comentó que, en el 2006, había una demanda de 120 mil toneladas de papa fresca para pollerías y en el 2007 alcanzó las 140 mil toneladas. Para el cierre de este ...

"We have all the potatoes we need,"said Miller, production supervisor at Gibble's Potato Chips in Chambersburg. Pennsylvania, with 19 potato chip manufacturers and a reputation as "the snack food capital of the world,"appears to ha...

Tras varios meses de trabajo y luego de haberse conocido los resultados del estudio de mercado que solicitó la Fundación para la Innovación Agraria (FIA), el 20 de mayo se constituyó oficialmente el Consorcio Tecnológico de la Papa, el cual está integr...