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The Potato Council has confirmed that it is increasing its levy for 2011/2012 by 3%.

Calbee Foods Co. of Japan has awarded its top productivity prize to employees at its United States joint-venture RDO-Calbee Foods.

American iconic brand McDonald’s wants to take a bigger bite of China.

Krunchers! Inc. is recalling Jays Original Potato Chips because of Undeclared Milk Allergen

The preliminary production estimate for the 2010 Canadian potato crop is 97,279,000 hundredweights (4 412 575 tonnes).

De aardappeloogst in West-Zeeuws-Vlaanderen en Walcheren is door de hevige regenval van de laatste weken mislukt. Die uitspraak durft loonwerker David de Looff uit Nieuw- en Sint Joosland aan.

De fastfoodsector wil de omzet opschroeven. Dat pakken ze anders aan dan de rest van de horecasector.

Nearly a third of UK shoppers want food and grocery retailers and manufacturers to focus on reducing waste.

A growing shortage of farm hands and smaller land holdings are forcing many farmers to mechanise their farms, allowing multinational agri implement companies to tap into Indian market.

As the US begins to emerge from recession, restaurants are seeing lapsed customers return.

Consumers of potatoes in the east and south of India will probably have to shell out more than his counterpart in the north, at least for the next two months.

Snyder's of Hanover will begin construction on a solar farm that will be the largest ground-based solar energy system in Pennsylvania

In consultation with the New Brunswick Potato Industry, the New Brunswick Regulation 82-70 of the Potato Disease Eradication Act has been amended to include Mandatory Post-Harvest Laboratory Testing for Potato Virus Y (PVY)

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has established a Potato Sector Biosecurity Advisory Group (PSBAG), which will guide the development of a voluntary National Farm-Level Biosecurity Standard for the Potato Sector.

The Potato Council’s provisional estimate of Total Production in Great Britain for the 2010 crop year is 5.817 million tons, down 6.1% from 2009.

On independent restaurant menus, potatoes of all kinds account for 44% of all carbs, according to MenuMine.

Coöperatie Nedato laat weten geen nee te zeggen tegen telers die van Agrico over zouden willen stappen naar Nedato.

Tijdens het jubileumcongres van het Voedingscentrum is de eindrapportage gepresenteerd van de Task Force Verantwoorde Vetzuursamenstelling. Uit de rapportage blijkt dat de Task Force de gestelde doelen heeft behaald.