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UK Potato growers are invited to attend the official opening of a new 600,000 research facility at the Potato Council's Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research (SBCSR).

Below you find an excerpt of "Potato Weekly", by the Potato Council. This crop update, published on August 2, provides insight on the harvest and development of the potato production in the United Kingdom:Total early crop clearance to 31st Ju...

William Chase, owner of the only premium potato-based vodka distillery in Britain, plans to take on much larger, mass-produced luxury brands in the U.S. market, Chase told Reuters.Unlike all large-scale vodka producers, Chase Distillery grows, mashes a...

A new potato processing variety has yielded well in trials in a difficult growing season.The new variety from Potato Innovations (PI), known only as YP0243, has yielded nearly 35t/ha of marketable ware in the trials.YP0243 is due to receive registratio...

Asda (United Kingdom)has withdrawn some of its own-brand Salt &Vinegar, Variety and Boxed Crisps, because the salt and vinegar flavouring used in the crisps contains trace amounts of wheat gluten. This means the products, which are available in var...

Issues surrounding potato storage such as efficiency will be one of the many topics on the agenda at the Storage Event to be held at Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research in Lincolnshire on 2 September.Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones from Bangor Universit...

Potato growers gathered together for an update on the latest legislative, technical and environmental issues facing their sector at the East Midlands Potato Day held near Spalding in Lincolnshire.

Walkers, the UK’s No. 1 crisps and snacks manufacturer, has announced English Roast Beef &Yorkshire Pudding as the winner of its Walkers Flavour Cup campaign, the world’s first ever ‘crisp tournament’. The Sunday lunch flavour gained more than  ...

World Potato Congress Inc (WPC Inc) President, Allan Parker and Potato Council Chairman Allan Stevenson, announced today that Edinburgh has been selected as the site of the 8th International World Potato Congress to be held in May 2012.It is the first ...

Heavy rainfall at the start of the second week of July has benefited parts of Northern European, where the dry conditions are affecting the whole European potato industry. Most areas have crops two weeks behind last year. New crop tuber size and yields...

Potatoes have been the centre of classroom activity as thousands of Earlies, grown as part of the Potato Council ‘Grow Your Own Potatoes’ project, have been unearthed.Nearly half a million pupils have had a hand in growing their own potatoes this year ...

The number of cases of a potentially devastating soil-borne bacterium that could cause significant potato production problems in Scottish seed potatoes has doubled.The Scottish Government yesterday admitted it had found two more cases of Dickeya solani...

The Scottish seed potato industry has reacted with anger to the confirmation of another crop of potatoes being infected with the highly infectious and transmissible potato disease dickeya solani which was found in a sample of ware potatoes grown last y...

British potato plantings this year are likely to be the lowest for five years, according to the Potato Council's first crop estimate.It forecast that total plantings would be 2.8% lower than last year at 126,600ha, the smallest area since 2005. With an...

Syngenta warns potato growers not to compromise blight control programmes during high risk conditions when tackling the threat of Alternaria.

The Potato Council is seeking nominations for this year’s British Potato Industry Award. The award is presented to an individual recognised for their outstanding contribution to the GB potato industry.   Allan Stevenson, PCL Council chairman, comments...

TEN passionate potato growers, ONE aim: to increase potato consumption and sales across the country. That’s the role of the ‘Potato Ambassadors’ who have been recruited and unveiled by Potato Council last night in London

Industry analyst Plimsoll has identified 31 small companies in the UK Potatoes industry that are in financial difficulty as the lingering effects of the credit crunch continue to bite hardest at the lower end of the market. According to market analysts...