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The United States Potato Board (USPB) is pleased to announce industry veteran Ryan J. Krabill has joined its staff in the newly-created position of Director of Research & Analysis.

The investigation into a food tampering case involving sewing needles inserted into potatoes is still active, reports Prince Edward Island RCMP spokesperson, Sgt. Leanne Butler.

On February 23-26, NPC hosted the 2015 Potato D.C. Fly-In, where more than 150 U.S. potato growers and industry partners from across the country came to Washington, D.C., to advocate for the industry's most pressing federal policy priorities.

The Washington State Potato Commission has hired a new director of industry outreach, Matthew Blua

Diálogo con María Andrea Uscátegui, directora ejecutiva de Agro-Bio, quien destacó los beneficios de esta tecnología en materia de protección frente a las plagas, resistencia a herbicidas, ahorros en los costos de producción y aumento de la productividad.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown talked with farmers outside the state Capitol Monday, stressing the the importance of potato crops for Oregon.

Productores de Aragua, Carabobo y Lara acordaron incrementar el precio de la cosecha de 14 a 40 bolívares.

When Leah Cook and her family moved to the St. John Valley 15 years ago and took up organic gardening and raising animals on their Grand Isle farm, she said more than one resident dismissed them as “hippy farmers.”

The first potato line ever launched under the Potandon Produce ™ brand name will soon be available.

Fresh Solutions Network announced that Mack Farms has joined their network of best-in-industry grower/shipper partners.

State Agriculture Commissioner Walt Helmick is on a mission to create jobs by convincing West Virginian landowners to produce potatoes — lots of potatoes.

Columbia Basin potato processors slowed down during the West Coast port impasse, making fewer potatoes into french fries, hash browns and other potato products shipped around the world.

Black Gold Farms, an industry leader in potato production, sales and marketing, recently acquired the legacy potato production operation, George Wood Farms located near Camden, NC.

The Cuban western province of Matanzas, one of the largest producers of potatoes in the country, will almost double potato yields during the present harvest, according to Agriculture officials.

En una reunión del Consejo Nacional de la Papa, que contó con la participación del Ministro de Agricultura, Aurelio Iragorri, se presentó el Plan para el Mejoramiento de la Competitividad de Pequeños y Medianos Productores de Papa.

En el marco de la conmemoración del aniversario 245 de la comuna de Puqueldón (isla Lemuy), en Chiloé, el municipio local entregó un reconocimiento a la Fundación para la Innovación Agraria y a otras instituciones que han colaborado con los agricultores de la zona en la protección y rescate de las diversas variedades de papa nativa.

Domestic potato production could amount to 4.5 million tons this year, said the president of the Peruvian National Potato Producers Coordinator (Corpapa), Edilberto Soto Tenorio.

It should come as no surprise to Prairie potato growers that Colorado Potato Beetle (CPB) insecticide resistance is increasing.