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To advance its position as one of the nation's premier natural snack food brands, Boulder Canyon™ Natural Foods has introduced two new varieties of its Canyon Cut line of kettle-cooked, ridged potato chips that appear in grocery stores this month.

Machinery manufacturer Tong Peal has announced a brand new machinery finishing process, as part of continued efforts to provide farmers and growers with the highest quality custom handling equipment.

Total US potato and product exports for FY13 (July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013) increased 4 percent in value to $1,639,911,793 and also rose 4 percent in volume to 1,561,896 metric tons (MT)--both record levels.

Si existiera un sello de origen para la papa y muchos otros productos, los consumidores podrían tener un elemento de juicio adicional para decidir su compra.

Branston and Tesco are offering consumers the opportunity to have their moment of fame with their new ‘Pic on a Pack' initiative. Customers have at chance to have their photo featured on packs of freshly prepared Parmentier potatoes.

Snyder's-Lance, Inc. (Nasdaq-GS: LNCE), has acquired substantially all assets of Stateline Service Corporation ("Stateline"), a snack food distributor in Massachusetts.

The Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI) in Shimla, India's premier potato research institute, has evolved a new technology to prevent conversion of starch into glucose in low temperature conditions, like cold storages.

Línea de tiempo que incluye algunos de los eventos más importantes ocurridos en América y Europa durante el desarrollo de la papa genéticamente modificada.

Already heard of the French Fry Burger? Well, I'll bet you will hear a lot about it...

McCain Foods is set to unveil its new Happy Days campaign on 2 September, featuring outdoor, press, TV, cinema and in-store activity, along with a 3.7 million household door drop.

More details have come out in the sale of Mr Chips by Simplot to New Zealand's Balle Bros, first reported by PotatoPro on August 18.

In the second quarter of 2013, sixty-five percent of recalls from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) were due to an undeclared allergen.

Supermarket chain Woolworths has released a report focused on the changes in the spending pattern of their Australian Shoppers over the past 25 years. The report also highlights the dramatic change in the position of the potato in that shopping cart.

Yield trials of the Dutch Farmers Union VTA indicate a yield mid August 19 percent below the 5-year average.

Growers, agronomists and technical specialists turned out in high numbers at Potatoes in Practice earlier this month on the James Hutton Institute’s Balruddery Farm, Invergowrie.

During the week of Aug. 23, the National Potato Council (NPC) led a delegation of five U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees in a crop tour of the Columbia Basin growing area in Oregon.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Fukuda Trading Co. Ltd. are warning people with allergies to milk not to consume certain Orion brand Italian Gratin flavoured Italian potato chips, listed below.

El paro de lecheros y paperos por cuenta del alto precio de los insumos, los costos del transporte, las importaciones y los intermediarios, sacudió al país.