Potato News from Northern America

Mister Bee Potato Chip Co. is the target of a lawsuit filed by Utz Quality Foods, claiming the company owes more than $600,000 for shipped goods.

Lance Inc.'s stockholders have approved its acquisition by pretzel and potato chip maker Snyder's of Hanover Inc.

As law makers move in various ways to legislate healthier eating in the U.S., it appears that Americans are beating them to the punch.

Potato agronomist Jeff Stark was one of three plant breeders who were honored with Innovation Awards from the University of Idaho Technology Transfer Office.

Following six years of unprecedented growth of Idaho® potatoes into international markets, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) has hired Amanda Albers as its first International Marketing Manager

The head of the Washington State Potato Commission ended a self-imposed diet of potatoes-only that he said allowed him to shed more than 20 pounds in two months.

The Potato Man proudly lined up a bunch of them on a counter in his family's kitchen: a really nice assortment of russets that, in the next days, would end up in his belly.

In their series of interviews with key people in the US potato industry, Spudman interviewed Frank Muir.

Greg Donald, general manager of the Prince Edward Island potato board, is looking back on a good year:

Potato Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon used 6.99 million cwt of raw potatoes during October, down 1 percent from October 2009, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

In flexible packaging, aluminum foil (hereafter foil) is the benchmark for barrier substrates when the requirements are protection against gases, moisture, and light.

A new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) challenges previous analyses of the food price crisis of 2007-08.

Calbee Foods Co. of Japan has awarded its top productivity prize to employees at its United States joint-venture RDO-Calbee Foods.

Krunchers! Inc. is recalling Jays Original Potato Chips because of Undeclared Milk Allergen

The preliminary production estimate for the 2010 Canadian potato crop is 97,279,000 hundredweights (4 412 575 tonnes).

As the US begins to emerge from recession, restaurants are seeing lapsed customers return.

Snyder's of Hanover will begin construction on a solar farm that will be the largest ground-based solar energy system in Pennsylvania