Potato News from the United States

Scarce metals have become so expensive that thieves are literally dying to get their hands on them. To combat the effects of these prices, supply chain managers and purchasers should reassess their risk strategies. Scarce metals have become so expensi...

SunChips, Frito-Lay's popular line of multigrain snacks, is stepping up to help rebuild the city of Greensburg, Kansas, which was tragically struck by a devastating tornado that destroyed nearly all of the community. In conjunction with Discovery Commu...

National Potato Council (NPC) has signed onto a letter with many other groups requesting Chairman Byrd (D-WV) of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member Cochran (R-MS)  include additional funding for PL 480 Title II food aid in the Senat...

Do you call it snack food or junk food? York County, Pa.,  opted to put on a kinder twist by calling it snack food and refers to itself as the Snack Food Capital of the World. Proudly, it would seem, as it has created the New Sweet Treats and Salty Ea...

Consuming large amounts of acrylamide, a chemical commonly found in French fries, cakes, snacks and even coffee, appears to raise the risk of kidney cancer, especially in smokers, Dutch researchers report. "Ours is the first report of a positiv...

Triarc Companies, Inc. announced the results of operations for its fiscal first quarter ended March 30, 2008. Highlights for the first quarter of 2008 as compared to the first quarter of 2007 include: -- Sales increased 5.7% to $281.6 million for Comp...

Being an ex-refugee didn’t stop Dr Mai Tran from getting her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in chemical and material engineering. For her PhD thesis, Mrs Tran chose the humble spud;the subject of her main experiment was to reduce the oil content in potato...

Frito Lay. Ballreich's. Mike-sell's. Conn's. Grippo's. At least 10 potato-chip companies fry and kettle-cook their potato chips in the Ohio, giving the state the distinction of having the second-most chip makers in the country.

TNA launches Roflo® 3, the first servo driven, totally reversible, gateless and truly modular food transfer and distribution system, at Interpack 2008.

Thursday, fast-food chain McDonald's Corp.served up tasty April sales results. The company’s global comparable sales increased 5% in April.Systemwide sales for McDonald's worldwide restaurants increased 13.7% in April, or 6.5% in constant currencies. U...

The President of the World Potato Congress (WPC) Inc. Mr Allan Parker, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and the Chairman of the WPC Awards Committee, Mr Douglas (Doug) Harley, Kinross, Scotland, have announced that nominations are now being called for t...

Burger King Corp. (NYSE:BKC) announced the appointment of Gladys DeClouet as senior vice president, North America company operations. DeClouet succeeds Dave Gagnon, who announced his intention to leave the company at the end of the fiscal year. DeCloue...

The NCERA (North Central Research and Extension Activity) 205 group met in East Lansing during late March 2008. The group was composed of members from Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado and Nebraska potato industries. Michigan atten...

Its been a staple in West Virginia since 1950. Mister Bee's Potato Chips in Parkersburg is the only potato chip factory in the entire state. And it started when Leo Klein purchased a truck, a fryer and a building for just $200. Mister Bee's Potato Chi...

Farms whose produce is used in federal food programs or sold to an increasing number of major processors and fresh packers must pass U.S. Department of Agriculture Good Agricultural Practices audits, a task that can be daunting. To help Idaho's potato...

The U.S. and Canada have agreed on a new protocol to deal more effectively with future outbreaks of potato cyst nematodes. Under the new protocol, dirt from fields in Canada and the U.S. that produce seed potatoes will need to be sampled using a full-f...

Among the most maligned and misunderstood of vegetables, the lowly potato may be poised to save the world. Or, at least, many of the world's hungry and poor, according to the United Nations, which has declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato....

Burger King Holdings Inc, la segunda mayor cadena de restaurantes de hamburguesas del mundo, informó el jueves un aumento en sus utilidades del tercer trimestre fiscal, gracias a mayores ventas en restaurantes nuevos y remodelados.   La compañía, conoc...