Potato News from the Americas

US Potato grower-shippers expect more of the same strong pricing in the New Year, which should keep retailers from running perilously low on spuds, as they did last summer.   Year-to-date, as of Dec. 10, Rosholt, Wis.-based Bushmans’ Inc. had shipped a...

Foodservice consultants and research firm Technomic has released its top trends for the restaurant industry in 2009. The consulting group said that while the industry may be facing the toughest New Year in recent memory, opportunities are still present...

The owners of Prince Edward Island potato producer Mid Isle Farms and other local investors have bought the province's potato and blueberry marketing company FoodTrust.

Here's something very Southern California about Hanukkah: Trying to make a world-record setting potato pancake in a solar-paneled oven. "With the new president [of the United States] coming in, the whole thing is about the environment,"said ...

Curso intensivo que provee capacitación a profesionales involucrados en la producción de papa. Se brindarán conocimientos actualizados de tecnologías de manejo para la producción de papa consumo, industria y semilla. Los participantes tendrán la oportu...

Hopes for National Starch to be sold by the end of the year have been dashed by the credit crisis and a sale is unlikely in the near future, said owner Akzo Nobel. Akzo made clear its intention to seek a new owner for the specialty starches business af...

Research released today by the National Restaurant Association shows that Americans are looking for healthier options and "greener"restaurants when they dine out, in addition to an increased interest in value and convenience. Surveys of resta...

Jay Gould: The New York Fries president on selling fries when times are tough (video)

Roots and tubers already make a substantial contribution to providing food and alleviating poverty in the developing countries.  We are convinced that they will play an increasingly important role as food for the future, particularly in the vulnerable ...

Key Technology launches its new Online Training Program, an interactive multimedia curriculum covering Key’s optical inspection systems and vibratory conveyors. The flexible, web-based program offers a wide variety of self-paced training modules.

The United States Potato Board’s (USPB’s) Dehydrated Potato Program attracted a record number of interested attendees at the 2008 Food Ingredients Asia Trade Show.

The 13 major [US] potato States held 242 million cwt of potatoes in storage December 1, 2008, down 9 percent from a year ago and 7 percent below December 1, 2006. Potatoes in storage accounted for 66 percent of the 2008 fall storage States' production,...

Troyer Potato Products Inc., which bills itself as the nation’s only grower-owned chip maker, has agreed to sell itself to York-based Bickel’s Snack Foods Inc.

Booming potato production in the developing world could falter as the global economic slowdown reduces investment, trade and potato farmers' access to credit, a new FAO report warned today.The threat comes at a time when potatoes have become an importa...

La primera dama de la Nación, Pilar Nores de García, lanzó el “papanetón”, un panetón navideño hecho a base de harina de papa. Este producto es posible gracias al esfuerzo de Sierra Exportadora y la empresa privada, con el cual se busca promover el c...

The Government of Canada is making progress towards regaining market access for Alberta seed potato exports to the United States. The Canada-U.S. Potato Committee has put forward a resolution as the basis for the United States Department of Agriculture...

Con carteles en los cruceros y entradas a las estaciones de metro en la Ciudad de México se anuncia y vocea la oportunidad de comprar dos paquetes de papas Sabritas por cinco pesos, promoción que según los vendedores es “muy llamativa en momentos de cr...

U.S. potato exports increased at a record pace in the third quarter, up 12 percent by volume from the same period in 2007, according to government trade data.Exports of potatoes and potato products during the July-September period totaled 1.5 billion p...