Potato News from the Americas

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire National Pretzel Company, based in Lancaster, Pa., from Brookstone Holdings. National Pretzel makes private label pretzels in a variety of forms, including rods, sticks, bra...

ConAgra Foods announced Thursday they have dropped plans to build their much anticipated Lamb Weston Office in Riceland's Columbia Point Area. However, they are still going to expand their operation in the Tri Cities. They're now planning to build nex...

The Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) today announced registered attendees of 12,732 for PROCESS EXPO 2011, which took place from November 1-4, 2011 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Technomic, a leading foodservice research and consulting firm sees the following trends in the Foodservice and restaurant industry in 2012. Technomic offers different predictions for each of the following segments: United States restaurants, Foodservic...

Luis Miquel, gerente general del Consorcio Papa Chile SA, se sumó a los expositores del Seminario de Competitividad realizado el 10 de noviembre en Puerto Varas y organizado por el Gobierno de Chile, a través del Ministerio de Agricultura. El ejecutivo...

With multiple meals to plan and guests coming in from out of town, the holidays can become hectic for most hosts. But thankfully, there are products out there that offer stress-free meal preparation – like Simply Potatoes. With Simply Potatoes, you ca...

Colorado Agriculture Commissioner John Salazar is organizing a trade mission to Mexico that he hopes will be fruitful for potato farmers in the San Luis Valley. Salazar said Thursday that he and Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office hope to pave a trade pat...

The popular Yukon Gold potato was a winner at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto this year, where it topped entries in the seventh annual Seed of the Year competition (east division). Developed by the late Garnet (Gary) Johnston, a research...

Earlier this week the USDA has released their latest estimates of the 2011 fall potato production in the United States.

Penford Corporation (NASDAQ: PENX), announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Carolina Starches. Penford will purchase the company interests and certain assets of the businesses currently operated by Carolina Starches, LLC and Ke...

More than a decade has passed since Jim Tiede was among the growers caught up in a debacle over the first U.S. genetically modified potato variety. Even today, the American Falls, Idaho, farmer copes with the fallout of planting Monsanto's GM potato N...

Idaho potato farmers who harvested later than normal because of a prolonged spring got their crops in without any significant damage before colder weather set in, though they had to push the envelope in some cases. There have been some reports of mino...

Mattel, Inc. [NASDAQ:MAT] today announced the election of Dirk Van de Put, president and chief executive officer of McCain Foods Limited, to the Mattel Board of Directors, effective as of December 1, 2011. This election will increase the number of Matt...

Today the USDA published figures on the US potato production in their report "Crop Production". Here is the summary on potatoes:

Heat and Control, Inc. and Food Process Systems, Inc. have formed a global partnership to develop and market new technology for applying batters, breading, and other coatings to a variety of food products.

The J. R. Simplot Company is planning to build a state-of-the-art potato processing plant in Caldwell, Idaho, with site preparation anticipated to begin next May and start-up expected by spring of 2014.

Global demand for frozen potato products (comprised mostly of frozen fries) is forecast up 5 percent from last year, according a recent report by the USDA.

Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has created a J$250-million (about 3 million USD) special line of credit for farmers of onion and Irish potato, accessible through the National People's Co-operative Bank network. Some 450 to 500 farmers are said to b...