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Chips manufacturer Ira Middleswarth &Son, a Snyder County company, is having trouble because of the weather. Normally, Ira Middleswarth &Son gets eight tractor-trailer loads of potatoes from its supplier each week. Middleswarth Vice President...

A growing number of health officials fear that investigators made a terrible mistake in blaming tomatoes for the sickening of more than 800 Americans, and they increasingly suspect jalapeno peppers, cilantro or some other food commonly found in Mexican...

Potato salad and potato chips at July Fourth celebrations could likely be made from North Carolina potatoes. In Pasquotank and Camden counties, where potatoes are big business, about 60 percent of the local potatoes are sold for potato chips. The rest...

One of the noisiest food fights in the US flared up again last week, as the Food and Drug Administration took another look at olestra--the controversial fake fat that promises Americans a nirvana of guilt-free gluttony. Approved in 1996, olestra is ava...

The number of Americans with diabetes has grown to about 24 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the U.S. population, the government said Tuesday. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on data from 2007, said the number...

he preparation of a potato can have a big impact on its mineral content, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists report in a new study of this popular vegetable.

After the long winter and cool spring weather, potato growers across Eastern Idaho are feeling the crunch on their crops. Local farmers say this year's potatoes are behind because they had to plant a little later than usual. But, now that the heat has...

El Ministerio de Agricultura lanzó la campaña promocional "Papea Perú", campaña que busca aumentar el consumo de la papa en base a sus beneficios. Esta campaña forma parte de las actividades por el Año Internacional de la Papa, cuya comisió...

CIEGO DE AVILA.- La primera planta productora de papas prefritas en el país comenzó su nueva campaña en la central provincia de Ciego de Avila, y se propone comercializar unas 1 800 toneladas del nutritivo alimento. Naíl Pérez Guizán, director del Com...

The Idaho Potato Commission is developing the details of a promotion for dehydrated potato products in Mexico.The details of the project are still being worked out, said Seth Pemsler, vice president of retail and international affairs for the commissio...

Potato Products of Idaho, a small company that makes specialty baked potato products is the recipient of Idaho TechHelp's spring 2008 Spirit of Continuous Innovation Award.Potato Products of Idaho, based in Rigby, Idaho, makes specialty products such a...

Document written by Ordinola, M., T. Bernet and K. Manrique. Papa Andina Initiative. 2008 (PDF file;6.2 MB). Content There is vast biodiversity of potato in the Peruvian highlands, which is not being made sufficient use of on a sustainable basis. Mos...

As a result of the preparations for the launch of our All New PotatoPro Webshop, we have experienced some unplanned downtime of the PotatoPro website.     We apologize for any inconveniences.  

Researchers at the University of Groningen and Wageningen University have succeeded in synthesizing the mating hormone of the plant pathogen which causes potato disease, Phytophthora. The synthetic hormone initiates the production of sexual spores in t...

En el Presupuesto Participativo del año fiscal 2009 del Gobierno Regional de Puno se debe priorizar una partida para implementar el Proyecto “Manejo Integrado del Gorgojo de los Andes de la Papa en el Sur de la Región Puno”, ello con el propósito de ga...

A hoped-for vote on a new purchasing contract between P.E.I. potato growers and french fry maker Cavendish Farms has been delayed. Potato growers have already rejected two previous offers from the company.

The latest contract offer to P.E.I. process potato growers appears to be creating more bruises than benevolence for Cavendish Farms, especially when the company offered more for potatoes in New Brunswick and Maine.A meeting to vote on the latest P.E.I....

Potato prices globally have not hardened as much as the rates of other food items like cereals as the root crop is not greatly exposed to the "ill-effects"of speculative trading, a UN body has said. "Unlike major cereals like wheat, mai...