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The Austrian optical sorting equipment manufacturer Insort GmbH will highlight its Chemical Imaging Technology applied in their Sherlock Separator for the potato industry at the Interpom | Primeurs.

The Washington State Potato Commission (WSPC) is excited to announce that a new record setting display of potatoes will be on exhibit beginning November 11, 2012 at Chuck’s Produce and Street Market in Vancouver, WA. The display consists of 133,000 ...

The 16th edition of INTERPOM PRIMEURS will be held from Sunday 25 to Tuesday 27 November 2012 in Kortrijk Xpo (Belgium). With the new record number of 255 exhibitors and the entire filling of the exhibition complex at Kortrijk Xpo, INTERPOM PRIMEURS ...

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 213 points in October 2012, down 2 points (1 percent) from September. The decline is largely due to reduced international prices of cereals and oils/fats which more than offset increases in sugar and dairy prices while...

The Board of Directors of China Essence Group Ltd announced that the Group expects to register a net loss for the second quarter ended 30 September 2012 in the financial year ending 31 March 2013

UK Snack manufacturer Tyrrell's is launching Swanky Veg, a premium vegetable crisp range. Tyrrells Swanky Veg crisps are a mélange of some of the world’s most lavish veggies, with a pinch of sea salt.

The Belgapom price for potatoes for processing (Bintje) established weekly in Belgium last friday hit its highest level of this year. The price was over ten times the price last year. "The Belgapom quotation is the most frequently used price obs...

California voters have decided they can live without labels on genetically modified food. This means the state will not be at odds with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s policy of not labelling GM foods, which goes back more than two decade...

Filippino-owned flavored French fries retailer Potato Corner is planning to expand in the US from the current 13 to as many as 1,000 stores in the next five to seven years.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission proposes to authorise the South East Potato Growers Association and the Victorian Potato Growers Council and their members to collectively bargain with potato buyers.

Potato seed supplies are unlikely to be interrupted this year despite the problematic conditions experienced by growers. That is according to Potato Council head of seed and export, Rob Burns.

El Programa de Investigación del CGIAR sobre raíces, tubérculos y plátanos (RTBs, por sus siglas en inglés) viene evaluando las prioridades de investigación que se espera produzcan los mayores impactos sobre el bienestar, la pobreza, la seguridad alime...

El Fondo Regional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (FONTAGRO) y el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) premiaron a las tres iniciativas ganadoras del Concurso de Casos Exitosos de Innovación en Agricultura Familiar, patrocinado...

On October 24, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the purchase of 240 metric tons of dehydrated potato granules and 320 metric tons of dehydrated potato flakes under the McGovern-Dole Food for Education and Child Nutrition Pro...

El Fondo Regional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (FONTAGRO), conjuntamente con sus patrocinadores el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) y el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), acaban de otorgar al Centro Internacional...

The Keogh farming family have been growing potatoes in north county Dublin for over 200 years. The city of Dublin has grown around the farm over the years.

With potatoes from Punjab expected to reach Bengal only in December, state cold-storage owners are planning to make use of the projected supply crunch from mid-November.

Many of the leading potato machinery manufacturers will be exhibiting their latest developments at the ADAS Syngenta Potato Conference and Exhibition in Britain in November, with technological innovations covering the whole growing season - from seed t...