News on The Potato Supply Chain from the Americas

The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) announced the appointment of three new Commissioners who will each serve a three-year term: Peggy Grover, from BenchMark Potato in Rexburg, Ritchey Toevs, a grower residing in Aberdeen and Tommy Brown from Lamb Weston.

USPB has enlisted the help of Hungry Girl, the nationally recognized multimedia brand created by Lisa Lillien, which includes a popular web site, a free daily email service, eight bestselling books, a television series and countless other TV appearances.

Agriculture is eating into central Minnesota’s forests so aggressively that state regulators and a prominent legislator are sounding the alarm about threats to wildlife habitat and a large, sensitive aquifer that stretches below parts of four counties.

Jackson's Honest Chips, a family-owned business making gluten-free potato chips with organic potatoes, organic coconut oil and sea salt has been named one of 20 semi-finalists in the Intuit Small Business Big Game competition.

Se realiza para formar una base de datos con la cantidad de productores de papa que existen en el país. Es un proceso voluntario.

The Red River Valley Potatoes was among the 1,000 companies exhibiting at the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) Fresh Summit in New Orleans on October 19th and 20th.

Campesinos crean proyectos para ser competentes con nuevos productos en el mercado.

El Ministerio de Agricultura firmará el convenio para establecer la red que reunirá 13 bancos en todo el país y más de 55.000 muestras, guardadas allí gracias al trabajo de recolección de distintas universidades y centros de investigación.

Produce Marketing Association’s (PMA) 2013 Fresh Summit Convention and Expo returned to New Orleans for the first time in 11 years to rave reviews of its attendance, education and networking.

Con el fin de crear un inventario de técnicas conocidas por los agricultores, se realizó entre 2006 y 2007 un diagnóstico sobre los sistemas de producción sostenible de papa en Perú, Ecuador y Bolivia. Son tecnologías que nunca pierden su vigencia.

Scientists with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service potato genetics program in Aberdeen, Idaho, were granted special permission to return to work during the US government shutdown, potentially preventing the loss of unique breeding material.

La empresa Ecuatoriana Inalproces SA fue elegida entre los diez finalistas del Changing Markets Award, competencia internacional organizada por la cooperación Alemana GIZ en nombre del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo (BMZ).

Ecuadorian chips company INALPROCES has been selected as one of the 10 finalists for the CHANGING MARKETS AWARD 2013, an initiative implemented on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Acaba de publicarse el último número de la Revista Papa, órgano informativo de la Federación Colombiana de Productores de Papa (Fedepapa).

If you had every kind of potato package allowed under Pennsylvania law, you could open a weight room. But you'd be missing 8-pound weights.

A delayed Red River Valley red potato crop was very late in revealing itself. But by Oct. 3, about 50 percent of the shipping district’s crop had been harvested, according to Ted Kreis, marketing director of the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association.

The potato harvest is nearing completion on Prince Edward Island, as growers have been blessed with favourable weather to harvest their valuable crop.

El Gobierno oficializa la compra de papa a los campesinos tal como lo pactaron en la ciudad de Tunja. El transporte ya se encuentra listo para llevar el tubérculo hacia el Cauca, Choco y San Andrés, zonas en emergencia de desabastecimiento.