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ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, the largest potato company in North America, and Unisur Alimentos Ltda, the only frozen French fry and dehydrated potato processing company in Chile, announced the formation of a new strategic partnership focused on Chile an...

Potato harvest is winding down in the Columbia Basin this week, with contracted growers reporting decreased profits and fresh market prices more than doubling from last year.Fresh market prices for Russet Norkotahs increased last year from between $4.7...

A 20km quarantine zone in Thorpdale's potato region has been declared following the discovery of potato cyst nematode. The discovery, made during routine crop surveys required to meet standards for seed potato certification, could have a devastating ef...

Angola Development Bank (BDA) project of credit for peasants in the country will rise the production of potato in the district of Chinguar, 75 kilometres southwest of Kuito city, central Bie province.Speaking to Angop on Friday, Alfeo Vinevala, one of ...

Tri-Sum Potato Chip Company has reached the milestone of 100 years of business, officially making the Leominster based snack the oldest continually-produced potato chip in America. In honor of the anniversary, Richard Duchesneau and son Jeff (third- an...

Het zou goed zijn als de wetenschap daar in de komende jaren energie in steekt, zegt Cees van Arendonk, voorzitter van de Nederlandse Aardappelorganisatie.Van Arendonk sprak vandaag tijdens een minisymposium over het blootleggen van de genetische code ...

PepsiCo Inc reportó el martes una utilidad del tercer trimestre inferior a las expectativas de Wall Street, golpeado por las decepcionantes ventas de refrescos en Estados Unidos. El fabricante de las gaseosas Pepsi-Cola, los bocadillos Frito-Lay y las...

The $8.5 million potato chips factory in Mahnomen that could eventually employ up to 100 people is almost complete.Arlen Kangas, president of MMCDC, the majority shareholder of Mahnomen Baked Chips LLC, said the facility should be turning out product s...

In a survey conducted by Clear Seas Research on October 13th, food industry insiders expressed concern over the impact of the current credit crisis -- both on their companies and on the food/beverage industry as a whole. While some believe the credit c...

A Peruvian and a Chinese photographer have won the world photography contest “Focus on a global food” launched by FAO and the United Nations as part of International Year of the Potato celebrations in 2008.Photographic essays by Eitan Abramovich, profe...

Proctor and Gamble (P&G) has moved the digital account for its Pringles snack brand out of Agency.com, according to Revolution.The FMCG giant is believed to have handed the account to Wunderman as part of a strategy to step up its digital marketing...

Frito Lay Canada said it is shutting its Pointe Claire plant by year's end, throwing 59 people out of work.Production of chips and snacks will be transferred to other Canadian plants. Frito Lay is offering unspecified severance packages to its 59 emplo...