Potato News

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America’s leading food makers, today announced its pledge to reduce salt across its portfolio of food products by 20 percent by 2015. Since 2006, the company has already removed more than 2 million pounds o...

Biohof Niedermayer - an Austrian farm growing organic potatoes who add value to their potatoes by doing their own processing - has recently built a new hall, where their potatoes are stored, pre-processed and processed.

In South Africa,  Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has told Parliament that his department intends to introduce rules banning industrially produced trans fats in all processed and prepared foods.Giving a written reply on Thursday to a question from the...

Los expertos aseguran que el futuro de la economía está en la innovación. Sobre todo, en aquellas áreas que, como la agricultura, están sufriendo una crisis desde muchos años que amenaza con convertirse en un camino sin retorno. Por ello, hay todavía a...

Greenvale's new packaging for its Lady Balfour organic potatoes has increased shelf life, decreased wastage and reduced complaints about greening by over 50%.Greenvale AP is the UK's largest supplier of fresh potatoes and Lady Balfour is one of the UK'...

In Nederland schiet het rooien van het areaal aardappelen ten noorden van de grote rivieren flink op. De inschatting is dat begin week 42 is dat 85% geoogst is. In het zuiden en zuidwesten van Nederland moet volgens inschattingen nog zeker 50% van de ...

HZPC Holland B.V. has realised a good result during this financial year for the 3rd year in a row. After taxes, the profit is 4.8 million euro. Although the profit is somewhat lower than in the record year 2007/2008, with a net return on equity of 15%...

Since 2000, a mystery disease has struck some potato fields in Texas, Arizona, California, Nevada, and other western states, reducing tuber yields and quality.

Consumer goods companies expressed confidence in the future of the economy last week by turning out for PACK EXPO Las Vegas in near-record levels, reports leading packaging and processing trade association PMMI, which produces and sponsors the PACK EXP...

El personal técnico del Centro de Desarrollo Agroganadero que el Inorde tiene en el municipio de Xinzo realizó un primer muestreo entre las 35 variedades de patata plantadas en la finca de ensayo de Antela, dentro del "Proyecto Patata", que t...

La ley que obliga a los restaurantes de comida rápida de Nueva York a especificar el número de calorías fracasó en inducir al consumidor de escasos recursos a comer más sano, reveló un estudio. Especialistas de las Universidades de Nueva York y Yale p...

At the Food Valley Conference on 8 October 2009 AVEBE received the prestigious Food Valley Award 2009 for its ETENIA™ line of starches.ETENIA™ is the new potato based product range from AVEBE that will help food manufacturers meet consumer demand for h...