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For over 65 years, Kentucky Fried Chicken has served up Colonel Sanders' famous Original Recipe(R) fried chicken. Now KFC is market testing a revolutionary finger lickin' new menu addition -- Kentucky Grilled Chicken. "This great tasting product ...

Key Technology introduces Manta™, a new state-of-the-art high volume, high performance sorter featuring a two-meter wide scan area that dramatically increases throughput within a space-saving footprint. Handling up to 27 metric tons (60,000 pounds) of ...

A global surge in food and fuel prices has become a serious problem for developing countries and the problems are likely to persist for years, a senior World Bank official said Thursday.   While some benefit from higher revenue on export of commoditie...

Who knew that candy around the checkouts could be big business?That's been the case for Jim Schweikert and his Chandler-based company Liberty Distribution Co. LLC, which sells candy bars, sweet tarts, bubble gum, potato chips and hundreds of other snac...

More than 50 consumer groups have launched a worldwide campaign to reduce the marketing of unhealthy food to children. Among other things, the new voluntary code calls for tight restrictions on both television and Internet advertising, prohibits the ma...

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 13 major potato states held 172 million cwt. of potatoes in storage March 1, up 8 percent from last year and 10 percent above 2006, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Potatoes in storage accounted for 43 percent of the 2...

Avebe heeft op de Franse beurs CFIA met Solanic de Innovation Award gewonnen. Het bedrijf won de prijs met de Solanic-versie Promish 204 P, een hoogwaardig eiwit dat onder meer gebruikt kan worden in vlees- en visproducten.

The foodservice industry’s share of the total food dollar dipped to 39.4% in 2007 from 39.7% in 2006 due to weakness in Central and Atlantic Canada.   Since 2000, the foodservice industry’s market share has slowly eroded from 40.5% – the result of slo...

Boston has joined others cities in banning artery-clogging trans fats from food served in restaurants and grocery stores. Businesses, as well as schools and hospitals, will have to stop using oils and spreads that contain trans fats. Prepackaged foods...

Restaurants, which have been slumping for two years because of a slew of short-term factors, are waking up to a worrisome long-term trend: The number of harried working moms isn't growing the way it was. For decades, the steady increase of working wom...

Yum! Brands, Inc today announced that Sam Su, 55, has been appointed to the Board of Directors as Vice Chairman, maintaining his position as President of the China Division. He will continue to reside in Shanghai in this capacity for the long-term

The closure of the Humpty Dumpty potato-chip plant in Summerside has P.E.I. Development Minister Richard Brown concerned about the province's investment there. The plant's 36 employees were told this week they'd be out of work by May. When it opened ...

One of the PotatoPro readers tipped us on the following event which we would like to share with you:   The development and implementation of a successful waste-to-energy or energy conservation bio-processing facility requires extensive planning, a cl...

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 ...

Monsanto Co. and Cargill Inc. are trying to persuade farmers in Iowa and elsewhere to grow the Vistive soybean variety. The two companies began the recruiting effort Tuesday, offering 50 to 60 cents more a bushel for Monsanto's Vistive-brand low lino...

Like his roots, Wallace McCain is extremely humble when asked about being only the fifth Canadian to receive a prestigious American award for rags-to-riches business success.