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ConAgra Foods, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Blake’s All Natural Foods, a rapidly-growing, family-owned company which makes natural and organic frozen meals, including pot pies, casseroles, pasta dishes and other entrees.

The new Wyma Bin and Bag Tipper gently tips fresh produce stored in bags, bins or boxes too heavy for manual unloading.

'Lay's Summer Days' campaign offers the first 10,000 fans a bags of Lay's potato chips with your own favorite summer photo. Not fast enough? You will have to do with a digital bag.

Potato planting season in Prince Edward Island, Canada has been pushed back by about two weeks due to the record-setting snowfall this winter and spring.

In the latest Consumer Category Report of the Potato Council, one of the topics addressed is the online sales of fresh potatoes - including actual growth, comparison to competitive products and grocery in general as well as future opportunities

A team of researchers tracking the 2014 population of the potato late blight pathogen have added to the 2013 data to extend the spatial diversity plots and combine this with novel genetic analysis tools that visualise the distribution and diversity of dominant clones and reveals novel genetically diverse isolates in some regions.

Ceres, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERE), an agricultural biotechnology company, today announced that the company has licensed its Persephone bioinformatics software to global seed potato developer, HZPC Holland BV.

It appears that the potato crisp is in decline in Britain, according to a survey carried out by 'The Grocer' Magazine

At the end of last week the Europatat Congress 2015 took place, organised in coordination by Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, and DKHV, the German Potato Trading Association. Feedback on the congress has been extremely positive.

Speculation has arisen that Turkey may soon begin to purchase cheaper potatoes from its neighbor Iran.

Lamb Weston now provides restaurant operators in North America with a tool to find out where the potatoes that become their fries originated and then share that information with their customers.

Walmart’s global president and CEO, Doug McMillon reiterated Walmart’s commitment to growing its business in China, committing to build 115 new stores by 2017 and upgrade 50 stores this year.