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Beth Bechtel, co-owner of Bear Island Brewing, came up with the idea for the brewery's best-selling Idaho Potato Ale while serving overseas.

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Earlier this month representatives from Potatoes USA met with the School District of LaCrosse, Wisconsin to test school foodservice recipes with the K-12 experts themselves.

La Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (Corpoica) lanzó la variedad Sol Andina para los departamentos de Cundinamarca y Boyacá. Sol Andina tiene un periodo vegetativo menor (de 110 a 120 días).que el de las variedades usadas comunmente.

The USDA-NIFA has awarded a grant totaling $388,000 to the University of Maine to study potato breeding and improve quality and pest resistance in the eastern United States.

El abastecimiento de papa sigue siendo suficiente, considerando que queda un buen stock del producto de la última zafra, y que pronto llegará al mercado la papa de primavera/verano.

The government of Canada last week announced a $1.8 million investment in a research project at the University of British Columbia that includes the development of beneficial management practices for increasing the efficiency of fertilizer use in potatoes.

The first official USDA data for harvest 2017 show the United States production of fall potatoes is down 2 percent from last year, forecast at 399 million cwt.

S-Scan Farms of Scandia, Alberta was named the McCain 2016 Crop Year Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Coaldale plant

La producción de papa para finales del año se acercará al millón de quintales (aprox. cien mil toneladas), dijo Juan Rivas, representante del gremio papero. Y si los rendimientos mejoran, concluye, el país podría estar exportando en un futuro cercano.

This Thanksgiving, Pringles® is bringing all your holiday favorites to the snacking table with the new and exclusive, limited-edition Pringles Thanksgiving Dinner.

Researchers from all over the world were in Bangor for the '2017 Dickeya and Pectobacterium Summit', organized by the University of Maine Extension.

A potato processing company in Pasco, Washington has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a Department of Justice investigation into whether it discriminated against immigrants when it ordered workers to verify their employment authorization in violation of federal law.

Eastside Distilling, Inc., a producer of award-winning craft spirits, today announced that its award-winning Portland Potato Vodka surpassed 1,000 cases sold for the month of October.

Fiskel Farms of Carberry, Manitoba was named the McCain 2016 Crop Year Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Manitoba plants during the annual Growers’ Appreciation Banquet held at Canad Inns in Portage la Prairie.

En el principal mercado de Asunción se ofrecen hortalizas nacionales y extranjeras. Los productores se quejan del contrabando y los importadores admiten que muchos productos ingresan ilegalmente, pero que en algunos lugares "se legalizan". Quién tiene la razón?

El MDRyT cuenta desde hoy con las herramientas de la FAO para planificar y apoyar a la agricultura familiar de la papa. Su aplicación ayudará a desarrollar un modelo de política pública para la producción agroecológica del tubérculo.

Investigadores de la Universidad de Ohio experimentan con una papa que podría llegar a prevenir muertes y enfermedades. Sobre todo en aquellos países en donde la gente depende del almidón del tubérculo para el sustento.