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The Prince Edward Island Potato Board held a news conference today to outline the initiatives it has taken to improve financial returns for potato farmers. Potato farmers have experienced severe financial losses over the past few years due to low price...

Duane Maatz has resigned as president of the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association, East Grand Forks, Minnesota, to become the executive director of the Wisconsin Potato &Vegetable Growers Association, Antigo, Wisconsin.

Glycoalkaloids in potato was the topic of a number of newspaper articles recently , since the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture published a review on glycoalkaloids in potato and potato products.

The P.E.I. Potato Board came flying to its own defence and to the defence of big french fry companies Monday after a well-known Island farmer and agriculture activist accused the companies last week of undercutting potato prices and the board of being ...

In the first of a series on sustainability, FoodNavigator looks at the value of sustainable practices and reporting and how it can improve a company’s standing among shareholders, customers and peers.

De prijs voor consumptieaardappelen voor de verwerkende industrie blijft dit seizoen boven de 10 euro per 100 kilo. Dat verwacht de aardappeltelersvereniging Northwest European Potato Growers (NEPG).In de NEPG zitten vertegenwoordigers van telers uit...

Recientemente se ha creado la Red Nacional de Innovación en Patata y de la cual es coordinador José Ignacio Ruiz de Galarreta, investigador principal de NEIKER-Tecnalia. El objetivo general de la Red Papata es organizar y hacer operativa una red españo...

Big french fry companies are undercutting P.E.I. potato prices by flooding the open market with cheap potatoes, says an sland potato farmer and a potato marketer.Jim Read, of J.B. Read Marketing Inc., and Danny Henricken, whose family has been growing ...

The minister of agriculture and water resources, Dr. Sayyadi Abba Ruma has disclosed that Nigeria is the fourth largest potato producer in the Sub-Saharan Africa, saying that potato which is produced mostly in the area of Jos, Plateau state has a rich ...

A pest-resistant strain of genetically modified potato, earmarked for possible commercial release in South Africa, will be of no use to local spud farmers, said the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) this week. It will also increase risk to the farmer ...

Nu doorpakken in Nederland en aandacht blijven genereren in andere landen’, is een van de conclusies in het Ecorys-rapport ‘Potato Supply Management’. De akkerbouwvakbond NAV heeft de ambitie om nu door te pakken met de krachtenbundeling van aardappelt...

This season promises to be a bad one for potato blemish disease black dot, UK potato growers are being advised.“Black dot levels after harvest and throughout storage tend to be lower when a crop is harvested early,” said Dr Jeff Peters of the CSL Plant...

Uit de laatste proefrooiingen van het PCA op 1 september jl. blijkt dat de groei van de aardappelgewassen eruit is. In de vroeg geplante percelen in Vlaanderen blijkt verder dat het percentage grof dit seizoen tegenvalt. De gewassen zijn dit jaar ook e...

Thanks in part to a large percentage of high-quality, No. 1-graded product, markets for new-crop russet potatoes are continuing where markets left off at the end of the storage season: red hot.On Sept. 9, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported pri...

Idaho potato acres are down, and the next few weeks could determine whether yields are down, too. Development of the crop was about two weeks behind during the early part of the growing season because of a long, cold spring.The potato crop has caught u...

Miguel Quevedo,especialista en papa de la Dirección General de Promoción Agraria (DGPA): Comentó que, en el 2006, había una demanda de 120 mil toneladas de papa fresca para pollerías y en el 2007 alcanzó las 140 mil toneladas. Para el cierre de este ...

"We have all the potatoes we need,"said Miller, production supervisor at Gibble's Potato Chips in Chambersburg. Pennsylvania, with 19 potato chip manufacturers and a reputation as "the snack food capital of the world,"appears to ha...

Tras varios meses de trabajo y luego de haberse conocido los resultados del estudio de mercado que solicitó la Fundación para la Innovación Agraria (FIA), el 20 de mayo se constituyó oficialmente el Consorcio Tecnológico de la Papa, el cual está integr...