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Southern Idaho potato growers filed a request with the United States Department of Justice on Friday seeking an investigation into allegations that ConAgra violated anti-trust laws.The Idaho Office of the Attorney General confirmed that it relieved, si...

A tale from history offers us a prediction about the future of food.The wonder crop is new and unfamiliar, lauded by scientists and politicians as having the potential to end famine and feed the poor. But the public is skeptical, regarding this new fo...

U.S. growers planted a few more potatoes this year, but industry officials and shippers aren’t overly worried about slumping markets. About 933,000 acres of fall potatoes were planted this year, up from 931,000 acres in 2008, according to a July 10 ac...

Walmart today announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index during a meeting with 1,500 of its suppliers, associates and sustainability leaders at its home office. The index will establish a single source of data for evaluating the s...

Potatoes may be faring better than other foods and nonfood commodities, but that doesn’t mean they’re immune from larger economic forces, Wisconsin grower-shippers said. “Potatoes are still a good value, even in a recession, but I don’t think a bad e...

Farmers in southern and central Maine have already reported cases of late blight in potato and tomato crops. Now the disease has spread to northern Maine.

Brad Hall, Chairman of Madhouse Munchies, is pleased to announce that Thomas Daly has accepted the role of President, Madhouse Munchies. In this role, Daly will oversee all aspects of Madhouse operations. Daly brings 15 years of consumer packaged goods...

Key Technology introduces SmartArm™, a new wireless performance monitoring system for Iso-Flo® vibratory conveyors that enables users to monitor asset or equipment shaker condition at any computer workstation.The system measures and reports speed and s...

Ground breaking for Shearer’s Foods Massillon Production Facility Phase I took place Tuesday, July 14 on site. Ohio’s First LEED Gold Certified Food Manufacturing Plant is being constructed in the NEO Com Industrial Park. The initial phase will house p...

Americans consume about 130 pounds of fresh and processed potatoes per capita annually, and in 2008 U.S. farmers harvested some 41.3 billion pounds of spuds on more than one million acres.

Potato harvesting season is just around the corner, and once more grower-shippers, industry officials, buyers and other interested parties are left to wonder: What can we expect this year? Last year at this time, the industry was faced with a situatio...

The second annual report on Oregon pesticide use is likely to be the last. Just as the report from the Department of Agriculture went to press, the program was cut as a casualty of state budget problems. The state of Oregon absorbed 19 million pounds...

At first glance, the menu at La Papa may fail to impress some jaded NYC diners. After all, it’s “just” a place that sells topped baked potatoes. But to dismiss La Papa so quickly would be doing both the restaurant, and yourself, a disservice. Modeled ...

Area planted to fall potatoes in 2009 is estimated at 932,900 acres [=377,540 hectare], up slightly from the 2008 crop year [930,500].Harvested area is forecast at 922,700 acres, also up slightly from 2008.Idaho potato growers increased planted area 5 ...

The familiar sounds of baseball -- the crack of the bat and the thud of baseball hitting leather -- were momentarily superseded Friday night by the unworldly sound of 39,203 fans setting the Guinness World Record(TM) for most potato chips crunched at o...

Procter &Gamble Co. has unleashed the four-decade-old snack in a barrage of new flavors, shapes and sizes with new marketing even as speculation grows that Pringles could be among the next P&G brands to be sold or spun off. "More and mor...

How's this for a global marketing strategy? Each month target a different international market with an ad that offends some segment of the population, then, after earning a lot of media attention, apologize and pull the ad.   That's the pattern of off...

La Comisión del Codex Alimentarius ha concluido, tras una semana de reunión, adoptar 30 nuevas normas internacionales para mejorar la inocuidad de los alimentos a nivel mundial y proteger así, la salud de los consumidores según la Organización de las N...