News on The Potato Supply Chain from Northern America

Potatoes are just big and brown on the outside and white on the inside, right?Wrong."There are hundreds of varieties of potatoes out there,"said Meredith Myers, public relations manager for the U.S. Potato Board.Most people recognize the basi...

El III Congreso Iberoamericano concluyó hoy en Vitoria con el acuerdo, por parte de las empresas productoras, de la industria procesadora y de compañías de biotecnología, para intercambiar recursos genéticos y tecnológicos, y establecer colaboraciones...

The final numbers on in for the 2007 potato crop and production in North Dakota declined by seven percent from 2006, according to a report issued on Sept. 25 by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).Final production in the state to...

Alaska entrepreneur Toby Foster hopes Fields wasn't far from the mark with his theory and that vodka connoisseurs from all over will appreciate a new potato vodka blend he has created called "Permafrost - Alaskan Vodka."A lifelong commercial ...

The Idaho Potato Commission, Eagle, has appointed Shawn Walters chairman.Walters, a third-generation potato farmer and co-owner of Walters Produce, Newdale, was appointed to serve a one-year term, beginning on Sept. 15, spokeswoman Krista Paglisotti sa...

Potato Harvest is around three quarters complete in Manitoba according to the potato specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. Tom Gonsalves says producers in some areas are already finished while harvest is fully underway in other regions.He says importan...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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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 ...