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Children across the United Kingdom have been harvesting new potato crops as part of the Potato Council’s primary school project, Grow Your Own Potatoes.

A Pennsylvania woman received quite a surprise in a bag of potatoes she purchased from a local Walmart store. Bonnie Raygor said that what she thought was a bad potato turned out to be a live, 3 1/2-foot snake.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the partnership between the Washington State Potato Commission (WSPC) and Washington State University (WSU) for potato seed lot trials.

Kathleen Triou, VP of Domestic Marketing at the United States Potato Board will become the chief marketing officer for Avocados From Mexico starting July 1.

In the United Kingdom, the Potato Council is seeking to raise awareness for the new season crop, with a TV advertising burst to hit screens in July.

Irish Research Institute Teagasc hopes to begin planting out more than 5,000 potato plants in the next two weeks, in the second phase of its study into the environmental impact of blight-resistant genetically modified (GM) potatoes.

They may not be the healthiest of foods but crisps are still the second most popular snack in the UK, research shows. But with crisps made from other vegetables and even fruit now on the market, is the classic potato crisp under threat?

Snackex es la feria especializada en los sectores de los snacks salados y frutos secos más importante de Europa. Organizada por la Asociación Europea de Aperitivos (ESA), este evento bienal se celebra por primera vez en Gotenburgo (Suecia)

McDonald's Corporation today announced that global comparable sales increased 2.6% in May.

Baker Perkins will showcase its technology and services that enable snack manufacturers to take advantage of new market opportunities, at Snackex 2013

Want to learn more about Electrostatic flavour application? then make sure to visit Spice Application Systems at the Snackex in stand 125.

At Snackex, Lamine Lahouasnia, Head of Packaged Food Research at Euromonitor International, will provide a strategic insight and analysis on how retailer own brands are developing and what manufacturers are doing to keep one step ahead of private labels.

Volunteer potato plants growing from seed infected with zebra chip are likely too few in number and survive too briefly to contribute to the spread of the crop disease, according to new Oregon State University research findings.

Harvester specialist the Ploeger Oxbo Group announced in June it had acquired all the shares of SAS Bourgoin Investissements, the Bourgoin Group, headquartered in Bournezeau, France.

McCain Foods and Pinguin NV have completed the sales agreement of the Lutosa division.

Leading global food packaging specialist, tna, will unveil its intelli-flav® model, the new addition to its ground-breaking seasoning range at Snackex 2013.

Manitoba potato growers signed a contract with McCain Foods last week, but their prices won’t increase from last year.?

Semagn-Asredie Kolech, a Cornell doctoral candidate in the field of horticulture, studies the potato and bridges the tradition of Ethiopian farming with the modernity of agricultural science.