Potato News from the Americas

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had the worst sales start to a month in seven years as payroll-tax increases hit shoppers already battling a slow economy, according to internal e-mails obtained by Bloomberg News.

Popchips Inc., the innovative popped snack company, is excited to announce the newest addition to its award-winning line of snacks - ketchup flavoured popchips, which will debut in Canada at Loblaws starting February 15.

Key Technology unveils its new Product Definer, a state-of-the-art instrument, located in its customer visitor center. This proprietary hyperspectral imaging spectrometer helps Key quickly analyze and evaluate new applications and technologies.

Oregon Governor Kitzhaber praised ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston’s estimated $200 million expansion plan, adding a new line to its Boardman plant to increase its capacity for making french fries and other frozen potato products.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and private equity firm 3G Capital will buy ketchup and baby food maker H.J. Heinz Co for $23.2 billion in cash, a deal that combines 3G's ambitions in the food industry with Buffett's hunt for growth.

Snyder's-Lance, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNCE) today reported results for its fiscal year 2012. Net revenues for the year ended December 29, 2012, were $1.62 billion, a decrease of 1.0% from prior year net revenues of $1.64 billion.

Successful early generation seed production depends on very close monitoring for pests, diseases, and variety mixtures. The latest ‘Focus on Potato’ presentation, titled: ‘Early Generation Seed Potato Production’ by Dr. Amy Charkowski, Associate Prof...

American Vanguard Corporation (NYSE:AVD) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, AMVAC Chemical Corporation (AMVAC), has received registration from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for SmartBlock®, a novel potato sprout inhibitor.

Del 14 al 18 de enero, se llevó a cabo en la sede central del CIP, una reunión para la creación de una Red que garantizará el mejoramiento de la calidad nutricional de las raíces y tubérculos.

In celebration of American Heart Month, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) launched the Heart Smart Recipe Contest with fitness guru Denise Austin and the popular Mr. Food Test Kitchen.

Gracias a tres innovaciones tecnológicas implementadas por el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) se ha podido controlar el gorgojo de los Andes y la polilla de la papa, dos plagas que dificultaban la certificación orgánica del tubérculo.

When a pathogen attacks a plant, infection usually follows after the plant’s immune system is compromised.  A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside focused on Phytophthora and deciphered how it succeeded in crippling the potato...

A University of Idaho researcher says he's optimistic efforts to develop genetically modified potatoes will resurface.

Idaho potato farmers should see more moderate increases in production costs in 2013 than they've experienced in recent years, University of Idaho Extension economist Paul Patterson predicts.

La comunidad científica internacional está de acuerdo en que una de las mayores manifestaciones del cambio climático es la creciente variabilidad interanual y estacional de la temperatura, precipitación y radiación solar, lo que se traduce en una mayor...

DuPont™ Evalio AgroSystems services is a free pest monitoring tool that helps detect insect pests. Growers using the system are provided with real-time in-season information that helps them choose the most appropriate product and spray timing to achiev...

Casi a punto la planta de procesamiento de la Papa, parte del proyecto "Guaranda Productivo", que se ejecuta gracias a la comunidad de Madrid - España, Ministerio de la Producción, Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Acuacultura - M...

That Simplot Foods plant that Grand Forks residents drive by along Gateway Drive has a sort of permanence. It’s been there for a half century.