Nieuws over trends in landbouw en voedsel uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk

Dr Colin Chartres, director-general of International Water Management Institute, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is to speak at World Potato Congress 2012 (WPC2012). The water management specialist, whose Institute has just won the 2012 Stockholm Water P...

Fresh produce supplier Fenmarc in the UK is set to source all its electricity from renewable energy following the successful commissioning of a local Anaerobic Digestion plant.

The smell of a baked potato can actually make us feel happier. Scientists in the UK discovered that the aromas given off during the cooking process can trigger positive memories in the brain.

In the United Kingdom (only!) McCain Foods is offering consumers the chance to win £100,000 via their new on-pack promotion ‘Lucky Spuds’.

Burts Potato Chips directors Nick Hurst and Jonty White have sold their stakes in the UK crisp firm.

Private equity firms Blackstone Group LP and PAI Partners SAS have appointed Credit Suisse Group to work on a potential sale of the salty snacks arm of their cakes-to-peanuts business United Biscuits Ltd. in a process that could fetch as much as £500 m...

Everett Brothers Engineering, which specialises in the design, manufacture and sales of machines linked to vegetable production and processing, has been trading for 38 years. However a downturn in orders has seen the company, based in Hockwold, near T...

Satellite technology developed during the cold war is set to deliver state-of-the-art crop monitoring systems to help growers improve agronomy and drive up profits. Although the technology dates back several decades, its capabilities for remote sensing...

United Biscuits (UB) has become the first major food manufacturer in the UK to achieve zero waste to landfill across all of its 16 UK sites including its UK factories, distribution centre and administrative offices. The company, which produces much lo...

UK Potato firm Branston has bought a fleet of green forklift trucks to tackle emissions. Branston's nine hybrid vehicles will produce 60 per cent less carbon dioxide and use 20 per cent less fuel than alternatives. The RX 70 trucks are run on diesel ...

Leading UK potato supplier Greenvale AP is on target to reduce its water usage by 100 million litres a year after rolling out its revolutionary Cascade eco root vegetable washing system to its Floods Ferry site in Cambridgeshire at a cost £1.7 million.

Food scientists have found a way of measuring how we register the saltiness of crisps which could lead to new ways of producing healthier crisps — without losing any of the taste. The research by scientists at The University of Nottingham could lead to...

McCain Foods is installing the smell of baked potatoes to 10 bus stops around the United Kingdom as part of its £1.4m push for Ready Baked Jackets. Six-sheets at the bus stops will be fitted with 3D fibreglass jacket potatoes, which on the press of a ...

This year’s World Potato Congress, to be held in Edinburgh in May and organised by Potato Council, has attracted a remarkable line-up of international speakers including Dr Anton Haverkort of Netherlands-based Plant Research International.

British raw food brand Gourmet Raw will be launching a new addition to their range in mid January 2012. Their new raw crisps are a snack range, made from sprouted buckwheat, which is contains protein and fibre.

Food producers can cut costs and boost environmental credentials by recycling food waste at a new anaerobic digestion plant in Wiltshire, UK

Children in the U.K. are finding vouchers for “Mudpuddle Farm” books in their Happy Meals next to the McNuggets and fries

McCain Foods has launched a new jacket potato product that it claims will be ready in just five minutes, offering consumers the taste of a slow-baked product in rapid time.