Potato News from United Kingdom

Branston's potato trucks get noticed. The huge images on the sides of the trucks (liveries) feature a potato family (Mr Potato Head reinvented) and merge humor and education. Definitely one of the fresher marketing messages on potatoes I have seen lat...

his year, Sainsbury's is launching a new British potato variety, offering consumers the exclusive opportunity to enjoy a home grown favourite throughout the summer months.

In order to stimulate, a food needs to have a very clear and obvious first taste.  This needs to be strong, easy and not too complicated.  To carry that taste, either sweetness or saltiness or a combination needs to be present. 

Joe&Seph’s have released a set of three new savoury cheese popcorn blends.

Don’t save your water for later – use it now, Eric Anderson, senior agronomist at Scottish Agronomy urges potato growers.

Potato blight programmes are being severely disrupted by strong winds preventing spray applications.

In the United Kingdom, potato Late blight fungicides Consento and Prompto (fenamidone + propamocarb) have gained label extensions for protection of potato crops against Early blight (Alternaria).

Heinz has restarted one of the three production lines at its Aunt Bessies frozen potato factory in Westwick, Norfolk after a major fire three weeks ago.

En el Reino Unido se realizó un estudio en almacenes de conservación de patatas con la finalidad de saber qué niveles de CO2 existen normalmente a lo largo de la conservación

after fire Heinz’s frozen and chilled foods facility near Norwich remains closed, 12 days after a devastating fire that destroyed the area of the site that produces Aunt Bessie’s potato products.

Tong Peal Engineering is exhibiting its latest range of farm and pack house equipment at Cereals 2011.

Lack of rain has affected most of England and Wales and unusually dry ground may result in higher levels of common scab than in the last few years, says Potato Council technical executive Chris Steele.

Production has been halted at a Heinz factory in North Walsham, Norfolk after a major fire over the weekend. <br><br>The fire, reasons for which are currently unknown, began at around midnight on Friday night and was finally put out by around tea time the next day.

Oven chip specialist McCain Foods' efforts to reformulate its product range combined with a targeted PR campaign has helped it to successfully navigate the healthy food storm

There were no positive findings of the potato disease Dickeya during post-harvest sampling of the Scottish 2010/11 potato crop, SASA has announced.

McCain Foods GB is launching Potato Fingers to meet a gap in the market for a potato product aimed at older children who may have grown out of child marketed products such as McCain Smiles.

Many potato crops are now emerging alongside intensive weed competition, with continued dry weather conditions having significantly reduced the efficacy of all residual herbicide treatments.

Bags of crisps are set to cost a packet - thanks to the soaring cost of potatoes.