Potato News from Canada

Piper's love of potato farming was known to all in the industry, and it led him to work with Potatoes New Brunswick. Executive director Robert Gareau said Piper spent six years with Potatoes NB, five of which he served on the executive as treasurer, v...

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Tuesday unleashed a proposed consumer safety bill that could force food manufacturers in the country to improve tracking of suppliers and processes. Spurred on by a crisis in consumer confidence last year follo...

The McCain Foods (Canada) potato processing plant in Florenceville should resume operation today, and the prepared foods facility next week, the company says. The plant shut down when a portion of a roof over a cold storage facility collapsed at about...

French-fries manufacturer Cavendish Farms and The Culinary Institute of Canada are teaming up to build a new research kitchen in Charlottetown. The $4-million kitchen will use the culinary resources of the institute and the market expertise of Cavendi...

McCain Foods officials are searching for the cause of a partial roof collapse at the Florenceville plant over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, the roof over a cold storage unit at the plant crumbled into the facility, said Calla Farn, McCains' dir...

The foodservice industry’s share of the total food dollar dipped to 39.4% in 2007 from 39.7% in 2006 due to weakness in Central and Atlantic Canada.   Since 2000, the foodservice industry’s market share has slowly eroded from 40.5% – the result of slo...

The closure of the Humpty Dumpty potato-chip plant in Summerside has P.E.I. Development Minister Richard Brown concerned about the province's investment there. The plant's 36 employees were told this week they'd be out of work by May. When it opened ...

Like his roots, Wallace McCain is extremely humble when asked about being only the fifth Canadian to receive a prestigious American award for rags-to-riches business success.

The amount of reducing sugars in the potato are responsible for the colour formation of fried products. So if potatoes are too high in reducing sugars, they are not suitable for processing.

Dr. David McKeown, Toronto's medical officer of health, is calling on Canadian politicians to address the country's growing obesity rate by banning junk food advertising to children under 13. Last week, acting on a recommendation by Dr. McKeown, the To...

McCain Foods is cutting production of frozen juice concentrate at its beverage plant in Grand Falls, N.B., eliminating about 30 jobs. McCain says the jobs will be gone by April 18 when it consolidates production in Toronto. The company says the move w...

Today we want to address a new development in the snack sector which I would call: 'Snack production going local' . Two companies, 'Fresh Chips' and 'The Chippery' each offer a different concept that eliminates the industrial potato chips production line or the snack factory and replaces it with a mini factory you may soon find on your street corner, literally.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has unveiled a new crop of experimental potato varieties, but it will be years before any find their way to your supper table. The new varieties were actually created six years ago, but only now have they gone through e...

Demand for specialty potatoes, with multi-hued skin and flesh, is booming.Potato expert Eugenia Banks' cache is nestled in white paper bags piled on pallets lined against the walls. Inside are prized potatoes: River John Blues and Purple Majesties, Win...

P.E.I. potato farmers, as well as visitors from across the country, gathered at the Charlottetown Civic Centre over the weekend for the International Potato Technology Expo.More than a hundred booths, including everything from seed to harvesting, were ...

McCain Foods (Canada) is pleased to have been recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies for 2007.The national award, sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC Commercial Banking and the National Post, recognizes excellence in Canadian owned and managed...

A new potato chip factory owned by Albright Farms in Centreville, N.B., will be up and running by the end of May. Co-owner Ryan Albright says Covered Bridge Potato Co. will produce kettled chips. The factory is being built off the Trans-Canada Highwa...

The Canola Council of Canada has said it wants to work with the food industry to develop an improved form of the oil to increase its appeal, amid international fears over its cost. Global income growth is pushing up demand of canola oil in countries su...