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Este documento presenta técnicas alternativas sencillas y de bajo costo que permiten mantener la calidad de la semilla y mejorarla producción de papa. También sugiere algunas prácticas para el control de las plagas de mayor incidencia en las zonas del ...

The owners of Saratoga Specialties Company, which produces Original Saratoga Chips, are hoping to sell the business.

Key Technology, Inc. and Visys NV, a leading provider of chute-fed in-air sorters used by food processors and waste recyclers, have entered into a merger agreement.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has its sights set on the smartphone-wielding shopper, this week expanding use of the “Scan &Go” feature for its iPhone app to 40 stores in the Denver area.

The owner of potato brokerage firm Spud city sales will make an initial appearance in Portage County Circuit Court today on charges of not paying farmers for shipments of potatoes.

Publican en Chile un manual para apoyar y difundir la labor de numerosas organizaciones campesinas, en el campo de la conservación y mejoramiento de las papas nativa de Chiloé.

Earlier this week we reported on the frost affecting potato growers in Florida. According to a more recent article in the Packer, Florida grower-shippers for the most part escaped serious damage

Keith Belling quit his job as a corporate lawyer at age 27 and spent the next 15 years running a series of businesses, including a restaurant chain and a website for small businesses. In 2005, he set out to create a new snack with one of his former em...

The Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) and the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) have announced that registration is now open for the co-located PROCESS EXPO and the International Dairy Show, taking place November 3-6, 2013 in Chic...

For the first time in its 75-year history, Lay's potato chips, one of the marquee brands from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, has introduced three new consumer-inspired potato chip flavors in stores throughout the United States.

Damtuh, a leading tea manufacturer in Korea, recently launched a new tea product, “Corn flake, potato and Chinese yam” tea which contains US dehydrated potatoes.

La papa se ganó el primer puesto en producción agrícola en 2012: registró un aumento de producción de más del 300%

The Canadian Horticultural Council’s Potato Committee will be meeting during the CHC’s annual general meeting to be held in Ottawa March 12-15.

Today Colorado’s Jared Polis will announce, outside a reborn organic retail store in Boulder, that he is introducing a federal bill in Congress to mandate the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms in all 50 states.

La fabricante de papas congeladas reorganizó sus negocios en el Mercosur luego de haber sufrido, en 2012, problemas para vender su producción en el país vecino.

Potato breeding developments being researched by graduate students in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences of the University of Maine look to save the future of Maine’s iconic crop.

Some of Florida's potato crops (Hastings and East Palatka) took a hit when freezing temperatures moved through the area Sunday night and Monday morning.

McCain Foods Limited, propietaria de los negocios de McCain en Sudamérica, desmintió de manera tajante los rumores que señalan que la compañía se irá de la Argentina.