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TOMRA Food is reaching out to vegetable processors everywhere to help them tackle the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The region’s largest potato processor sheds new light on french fry-making in its first-ever corporate sustainability report.

The Canadian Potato Crop is in the 'growing stage'. There is a recurring theme from coast to coast: It is dry – the crop is not suffering yet because
it is in the early stages of development but does need rain soon.

Bedachtzaam omspringen met onze bodem en efficiënt telen zijn sleutelwoorden voor een duurzame landbouwsector. Zowel vanuit de particuliere hoek, die de vraag in supermarkten bepaalt, als vanuit de overheid is de vraag naar andere technieken groot. In versneld tempo worden namelijk allerhande chemische gewasbeschermingsmiddelen en onkruidverdelgers verboden.

Snack manufacturer Frito-Lay will expand its operations in Perry, Georgia, already its largest US Manufacturing facility. The $200 million investment in the production of Baked Cheetos Puffs and Tortilla Chips creates 120 new jobs.

Tummers Food Processing Solutions has developed the ‘E²E-Condenser’, a unit that redirects the emission of steam peeling machines, allowing energy to be recovered for use elsewhere in the production.

Tummers Food Processing Solutions have recently unveiled their latest development in the market, a steam peeler, with a total cost of ownership that is lower than any other peeler available. The peel loss of this machine is comparable with the result of other peelers on the market, but at lower operational costs and a lower steam consumption.

Free, downloadable publication by TOMRA Food for Potato Fresh Packers addresses challenges intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the race to decarbonise the economy, industrial processing is a tough nut to crack given the amount of heat needed to process goods.

White Castle Just Hired a New Fry Guy—and It's a Robot. The next time Harold and Kumar go to a White Castle, there may be a robot making their French Fries.

Avebe heeft de definitieve campagneprijs van 76,50 euro per ton aardappelen bekend gemaakt aan haar leden.

The North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) estimates that the area for consumption potatoes in North-Western Europe increased with 0,5% compared with last year and is estimated at 621,148 hectares.

Kloosterboer will begin the construction of a new state-of-the-art fully automated multi-customer high-rise cold-storage facility with a storage capacity of 60,000 pallets in Rotterdam. The building will be finished in January of 2022.

New potatoes are a veggie lover's early-summer dream — the tender little spuds, some around the size of golf balls, others the size of a crabapple, melt in your mouth when steamed, buttered and lightly seasoned. Heaven. And they're now popping up at roadside stands across P.E.I.

Un agricultor de Campanar despacha los productos de su huerta en plena ciudad ante la imposibilidad de colocarlos en el mercado por los bajos precios ofertados por los intermediarios.

El mundo de la agricultura lleva meses en el radar de los inversores financieros, que han encontrado en esta industria un negocio relativamente anticíclico y que se comporta bien frente a determinadas crisis, como la del coronavirus.

Los grandes supermercados apuestan principalmente por distribuidoras nacionales para la producción de sus aperitivos más populares.

The German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has approved the ethylene-based sprout suppressor Restrain as a safe crop protection product with immediate effect. The approval applies to the treatment of potatoes (for both domestic consumption and starch production), onions, garlic, shallots, propagating material, and tomatoes.