News on The Potato Supply Chain

With 80 percent to 85 percent of the estimated 55,000 acres of Aroostook County potatoes out of the ground, officials with the Maine Potato Board said Thursday that growers are seeing average yields of high-quality potatoes this year.

Food and Farming Minister, Jim Paice, will be celebrating Potato Day on 14 October with a visit to Frogmary Green Farm in Somerset, a farm which works to educate children about potatoes.

Floods in Poland and a drought in Russia have wiped out large portions of the potato harvests in those countries, prompting their buyers to turn abroad in search of spuds.

The National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA), a branch of Peru's Agriculture Ministry, presented today the INIA 309 potato -also known as Serranita Ecologica (Ecological Serranita)- which uses fewer pesticides during its cultivation

Last fall, a motivated group of potato industry members set out to find a way to create short-term demand for potatoes that goes beyond the traditional coupon or price cut, but wasn’t a consistent, long-term demand catalyst.

Door het aanhoudend mooie weer zal naar schatting aan het eind van de week (41) 75% van de consumptieaardappelen in Nederland zijn gerooid.

La investigación que acaba de publicar la Universidad de California, Davis y el Centro Nacional de Inocuidad de los Alimentos y Tecnología, organismo perteneciente al Instituto de Tecnología de Illinois, demuestra que las personas pueden incluir la pap...

Tasmanian potato growers supplying Simplot have reluctantly agreed to a AU$25 cut per tonne of potatoes grown this season.

Russians' love of potatoes may be force them to turn to Egypt and even America to replace crop lost to this summer's drought.

Een Duits instituut heeft een methode ontwikkeld om in een perceel te bepalen of een aardappelplant besmet is met phytophthora, de aardappelplaag.

The West Bengal government’s handling of a bumper potato crop this year is becoming a political hot potato.

HZPC Holland B.V. has realised a result of 3.6 million euro in financial year 2009/2010.Just like last year, the supervisory board decided to put at the disposal of the shareholders 65% of the profit of the company. This means a dividend of 3.00 euro p...

The United Potato Growers of America says it is confident the group will prevail in an expanding legal battle in which the co-operative and others are accused of engaging in “classic cartel behavior” to control potato supplies and fix prices at artificially high levels.

New York City and Los Angeles County are among five jurisdictions that have won a $1.9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for sodium-reduction initiatives involving restaurants and schools.

Ante la buena acogida que obtuvo la primera edición del congreso entre todos los agentes involucrados en el sector de la patata temprana, y la creciente consideración de la patata como alternativa viable de cultivo frente otros en declive, desde la Aso...

Favorable weather in North Dakota and Minnesota allowed producers to make good harvest progress this past week.

Minimising risk of Dickeya solani infections in Scotland is a key policy for the Scottish government.