News on The Potato Supply Chain from the Americas

Idaho’s potato production is expected to total 114 million cwt, down 14 percent from last year’s 133 million cwt and 2 percent below the 2008 crop.

Carlos Sierra, ingeniero agrónomo M. Sc., investigador de INIA Intihuasi y experto en fertilidad y nutrición de plantas afirmó en INIA Remehue, Centro Nacional de la Papa, que “en los últimos años, gracias al trabajo que se ha desarrollado en el marco ...

En presencia de las principales autoridades del departamento de Puno, se realizó el lanzamiento de la nueva variedad de papa denominada INIA 317 – ALTIPLANO, la cual cuenta con características que la hacen un producto de excelente calidad y cualidad pa...

'Focus on Potato' has published a new webcast: on 'Corky Ringspot Disease in Potato'

After months of speculation to what extent the potato production in North America would be reduced, as of yesterday we have the official estimates from the USDA for the United States.

After months of speculation to what extent the potato production in North America would be reduced, as of yesterday we have the official estimates from the USDA for the United States. The long anticipated report 'Crop production (November 2010)' published November 9, provides detailed information on the fall potato crop in the United States.

It seems it's the time of year (already?) companies and organisations bring their predictions for trends of importance in the year 2011.

The question of the moment for restaurant operators: Are the winds of healthy change truly blowing, or is it only so much hot air?

Canadian Horticultural Council (CHC) Potato Committee Chair Keith Kuhl announced recently that Mark Drouin has been named Vice President, Potatoes effective October 19, 2010.

El gobierno paraguayo prohibió la importación y utilización del insecticida endosulfán en cultivos hortícolas y frutales por considerarlo tóxico para los humanos, según un comunicado divulgado el jueves por el estatal Servicio Nacional de Calidad y San...

Potato ring rot has shown up on at least two Prince Edward Island farms, the provincial Department of Agriculture has confirmed

Potatoes in all shapes, colors and presentations were a hit at Latin America’s biggest ‘foodie’ get together this year, and highlighted the fact that biodiversity can be delicious

Potato growers across the United States appear to have finished digging the 2010 crop, but a few potatoes remain in the ground on Canada's Prince Edward Island.

Los campesinos y cooperativista de la provincia de Ciego de Ávila, aplican la regulación de plagas en el cultivo de la papa, con medios biológicos a través del sistema del fertirriego, experimento utilizado en las Empresas de Cultivos varios el Mambí y...

A controversial bid to buy public land in southern Alberta to grow potatoes has been withdrawn, Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight confirmed today.

Among the hundreds of potato varieties that North Dakota State University researchers work with, some are certainly eye-catching.

Research by Professor Manuel Ospina-Giraldo on Phytophthora Infestans - the organism that caused the Irish Potato Famine - is being funded as part of a $999,900 “Education in Genomics-Based Microbial Forensics” grant from the United States Department of Agriculture.