Potato News from the United States

SaltWorks, Inc. (http://www.seasalt.com) doesn't do anything halfway, and it has a brand new, 100,000 sq. ft, state-of-the-art gourmet salt factory to prove it. With more than $3 million in upgrades, the new SaltWorks headquarters coincides with the co...

American food company Kraft Foods, which is planning to split into two independent companies this year, announced that it would eliminate approximately 1,600 positions throughout the US and Canada over the next 12 months. About 40% of the job cuts wil...

The nutritional value of potatoes will take center stage during the upcoming Washington-Oregon Potato Conference.

The French fry appears to be taking sole blame of Americans being obese.

A potato disease that arrived late this summer in the Pacific Northwest called zebra chip likely can't be spread by planting infected seed, new research suggests.

Burger King, in a bid to catch up with McDonalds and take a bite out of the competition posed by fast-food rivals such as Wendys, is experimenting with home delivery.

Few people know better than Greg Jones how important it is to sort and grade potatoes accurately and quickly.

An image problem continues to trouble all sectors of the spud industry, according to the Alliance for Potato Research and Education

They all had slightly different ways of expressing it, but when panelists at the Potato Expo 2012 discussed sustainability, their message came down to three words known as the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit.

De aardappel zal binnen enkele decennia tarwe als tweede akkerbouwgewas in de wereld verdringen. Dat is de overtuiging van onderzoeker Anton Haverkort van Plant Research International van Wageningen UR.

Officials associated with the potato industry in the Pacific Northwest have indicated that acreage planted to potatoes in Oregon and Washington increased this season.

JBT Corporation (NYSE: JBT), a leading global technology solutions provider to the food processing and air transportation industries, announced cost reduction actions in its FoodTech segment in response to market conditions with an objective to improve...

The potato industry is behind a unified effort to learn more about acrylamide - which was discovered in food about ten years ago.

Barry C. Levin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Snak King Corp., announced on January 3 that his firm has acquired C.J. Vitner Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of snack foods in the greater Chicago market. Terms of the transactio...

El Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos (USDA, por sus siglas en inglés), en colaboración con tres universidades más, ha lanzado recientemente un sitio web para difundir información relacionada con el virus Y (PVY) de la papa. Este sitio s...

The USDA, in cooperation with three major universities, recently launched a web site to disseminate information related to Potato Virus Y. This information will prove useful to all groups of people who need information about PVY, from potato growers, to scientists, to people working within the potato industry, to consumers of potatoes and potato products.

A Minnesota seed potato grower and immediate past president of the National Potato Council was recognized Saturday for his strong leadership during 2011

Technology was evident in virtually every booth at the Potato Expo 2012, and the U.S. Potato Board’s booth was no exception.