Potato News from Europe

Vorige week werd tijdens de ledenraad van Agrico de jaarrekening voor 2013-2014 vastgesteld. Dit aansluitend aan de centrale ledenvergadering, die als voortvloeisel van het nieuwe bestuursmodel voor het eerst in deze vorm is gehouden.

At Lamma 2015 - UK's largest farm machinery, equipment and agricultural services show - visitors to the AVR booth can get intimately acquainted with AVR's new potato harvesters.

Since 1951 Kadi has been an innovative manufacturer of potato products and other frozen foods for the Swiss foodservice. Enthusiastic chefs create from day to day the favorite dishes of the Swiss people.

Herbert Engineering, the leader in agricultural handling systems, will be attending LAMMA 2015, to showcase its latest grading technology.

The total ware potato harvest in the five North-Western European Potato growers (NEPG) countries - Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Great Britain - in 2014 is estimated at more than 28 million tons.

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 192.6 points in November 2014, virtually unchanged from October, but 13 points (6.4 percent) below November 2013.

Lamb Weston / Meijer, maker of frozen potato products and dried potato flakes, is investing € 120 million euros in its Bergen op Zoom plant located in the southwest of the Netherlands.

Una de las líneas de trabajo es el control biológico de la plaga con la suelta de una pequeña avispa que parasita en los huevos e impide su ciclo natural.

Potato and rapeseed industry produce vast amounts of protein-rich by-products, which could be utilized in the production of high-quality foodstuffs.

Greenvale, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of fresh potatoes, offers a festive Christmas version of its 2kg bags of GreenVale All Rounder Potatoes.

TNO en Wageningen UR bundelen vanaf 1 januari 2015 hun kennis en expertise op het gebied van voedsel-, voedings- en biobased-onderzoek. Zij doen dat om meer waarde voor marktpartijen en overheid te kunnen bieden en gebruik te maken van hun complementaire expertises.

The 17th edition of INTERPOM | PRIMEURS in Kortrijk Xpo has again chalked up record visitor numbers with no less than 19 529 visitors, representing an increase of 10.5%

Tong Peal Engineering is enhancing its business in the French market by appointing a full time Sales Executive to service new and existing customers.

Jeroen Hindryckx uit Koekelare en Condi-Plants uit Gembloux zijn tot winnaars van de tweede Inno Potato Award.gekozen tijdens de Interpom | Primeurs in Kortrijk.

Mooij Agro reveals the Croptimiz-r storage computer with personalized overview of your store at Interpom | Primeurs.

In financial year 2013/2014 Cooperative AVEBE achieved - for the second consecutive year following the abolition of the agricultural subsidies - a good performance price: 75.07 euros.

Accurate sizing of whole potatoes does not just need to be rough and mechanical thanks to the Modus, TOMRA’s new size grader!

Pulsemaster BV uit Bladel introduceert een nieuwe generatie PEF (pulsed electric field)-technologie voor het verbeteren van verwerkingsprocessen in de aardappelindustrie.