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A researcher for North Carolina State University's Potato Breeding and Genetics Program, Clough plants test fields in Pasquotank County and other state locations each year to test potato varieties and compare their yields and quality.

The United Nations is seeking photographers to 'capture the spirit of the spud' as part of a competition aimed at raising the profile of the humble tuber for International Year of the Potato. Photographers are invited to enter images in a contest to ...

Nineteen potato growers and industry representatives from across the United States formed the Potato Industry Leadership Institute (PILI) Class of 2008, training designed to identify, develop and cultivate new leaders within the potato industry. From F...

The global snack market will be worth almost $300bn (€197.8bn) by 2010, as manufacturers move towards healthier products as well as developing markets, a new report predicts.   The 'Snack Foods' report, released yesterday by Global Industry Analysts(G...

Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Triarc Companies, Inc. announced today that it exceeded its development goals for 2007 with the opening of 148 Arby’s restaurants and the signing of new commitments to open an additional 197 restaurants th...

In this study, a numerical model was developed to simulate frying of potato strips and estimate acrylamide levels in French fries. Heat and mass transfer parameters determined during frying of potato strips and the formation and degradation kinetic par...

Food processors can reduce costs and benefit the environment by using their waste to fuel biogas production, according to Ontario-based StormFisher Biogas.Ryan Little, vice president of business development, explained to FoodProductionDaily.com that th...

Wheat surged to a record in Chicago as prices seesawed from the biggest gain ever to the largest decline and then back again. Wheat futures rose more than 25 percent from today's low to their high, a gain that was bigger than all but seven annual pric...

Sales for the three months ended January 30, 2008 increased $316 million, or 13.8%, to $2.61 billion, with growth in all five business segments. Volume increased 5.2%, driven by a 9.8% volume increase in Asia/Pacific, combined with solid growth in Euro...

Fall potato stocks in Michigan on Feb. 1 were estimated at 6.2 million hundredweight (cwt), according to the USDA, NASS, Michigan Field Office. February's stocks represent 42% of the total production, up 35% from last year's 4.6 million cwt. Stocks by ...

The food industry across Europe needs to make a big effort to reduce saturated fat in food regardless of whether national agencies set targets - and it should not wait around for governments to do all the awareness-raising with its consumers.   Last we...

The 13 major potato States held 206 million cwt of potatoes in storage February 1, 2008, up 7 percent from last year and 9 percent above February 1, 2006. Potatoes in storage accounted for 52 percent of the 2007 fall storage States’ production, up 3 pe...

Soaring energy costs may be roiling the financial markets, but world governments are also being rattled by a more basic form of inflation: sky-high food prices.   Pakistan is stockpiling wheat and using its military to guard flour mills. Indonesian con...

Een delegatie van de Nederlandse Akkerbouw Vakbond (NAV) en het Algemeen Boeren Syndicaat (ABS) uit België is enthousiast teruggekeerd van de uitwisselingsgesprekken met de United Potato Growers of America (UPGA) in Salt Lake City. Duidelijk is geword...

The potato is one of the most vital crops in the world for feeding the poor, evidenced by the United Nations' declaration that 2008 is the Year of the Potato. But this versatile vegetable is susceptible to many pests, diseases, environmental stresses ...

A new United States Potato Board (USPB) website, www.potatogoodness.com, joined the Board’s online cache of resources championing the goodness and nutrition found in America’s favorite vegetable. This consumer website went live January 17, 2008 and re...

With 2008 designated the International Year of the Potato, ten Latin American countries and Spain have formed the Latin American Network for Innovation on Potato Improvement and Dissemination, known as Red Latinpapa. The network was announced following...