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Pringles Holiday flavors
November 12, 2015
Pringles brings back favorite holiday flavors and adds one more...
Tis the season to get ready for holiday celebrations, and Kellogg Company is offering the sweet and savory flavors people love this time of year. Pringles brings back some holiday favorites while introducing new, on-trend flavored salted-caramel crisps.
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AVR Puma 3 in operation.
November 12, 2015
200th AVR Puma potato harvester at Agritechnica 2015
Agritechnica features the new generation of the AVR Puma: the Puma 3. This four-row harvester is the 200th Puma to hit the field.
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McDonald's Sweet Potato Fries
November 12, 2015
McDonalds is testing Sweet Potato Fries in Texas
Mcdonald's is testing sweet potato fries in a number of its restaurants in Texas
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Sam Squire loves potatoes and he's more than happy to talk about them and show them (Courtesy CNW Group / Royal Agricultural Winter Fair)
November 11, 2015
Learn about potatoes at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto
'Do you want fries with that?' is the question that prompts us to think about potatoes. But there is so much more to potatoes as visitors to The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (RAWF) are learning.
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Bacterial ringrot
November 11, 2015
PEI government ends disinfection program to prevent ring rot; Potato Board blindsided.
The Prince Edward Island government is cutting funding to provincially-funded disinfection service, aimed at controlling potato ring rot.
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MSU has long helped potato growers in Michigan and around the globe. Photo illustration courtesy of MSU
November 11, 2015
Major US project to improve potato production in Bangladesh and Indonesia led by MSU
The US Agency for International Development has awarded Michigan State University (MSU) a $5.8 million cooperative agreement to improve potato production in Bangladesh and Indonesia. Additional partners include the University of Minnesota and J.R. Simplot as well as in-country partners in both Bangladesh and Indonesia.
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After mostly declines since March 2014, the FAO Food Price Index went up sharply in October 2015
November 11, 2015
Sharp increase in FAO Food Price index in October
After mostly declines since March 2014, the FAO Food Price Index went up sharply in October 2015
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McDonald's Turnaround Plan
November 11, 2015
McDonald's Turnaround Plan
During the Company's investor meeting today, McDonald's Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Easterbrook and members of senior management provided an update on the Company's Turnaround Plan
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Juan Villegas, Coordinador Nacional del Programa Papa, y Oscar Altamirano, biotecnólogo, en la entrega de vitro-plantas de papa.
November 10, 2015
En dos años Bolivia produciría papa para la industria
Pucara, Cardinal y Única son tres nuevas variedades de papas bolivianas que a simple vista parecen tubérculos comunes y corrientes, sin embargo, proyectan ser las más eficientes en el ámbito para el que fueron desarrolladas: la industria alimenticia.
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Potato Harvest in Lebanon
November 09, 2015
4000 ton of Lebanese potatoes destined for export stuck in transport halfway
128 containers with around 4.000 tonnes of potatoes from Lebanon destined for Arab Gulf states have been stopped in Port Said, Egypt or have already been returned to Lebanon.
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Digging up the first field grown Calyxt cold storable potatoes
November 09, 2015
Calyxt completes first field trials of its cold-storable potatoes
Calyxt, Inc., a Minnesota-based company focusing on developing healthier food products, has announced that it has completed the first field trials of its cold storable potato.
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Potato harvesting equipment was making slow progress in heavy ground near Bloomfield Corner (Prince Edward Island, Canada) Friday morning. (Courtesy: Journal Pioneer)
November 09, 2015
Prince Edward Island Potato harvest almost complete
A PEI Potato Board survey last week revealed there were about 1,000 acres of potatoes left to be harvested across Prince Edward Island, mostly in central and western P.E.I.
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Turkey working to register a new drought resistant potato variety called "Allah diyen sarisi" - this translates to something like "Allah said yellow"
November 09, 2015
Turkey to register a new drought resistant potato variety: 'Allah diyen sarısı'
Prof. Dr. Gungor Yilmaz of the Gaziosmanpaşa University (GOI) Faculty of Agriculture is carrying out a study that will lead to the registration of a new yellow-flesh potato variety called 'Allah diyen sarisi' that may be grown without irrigation due to its exceptional drought-tolerance
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Usar semilla certificada de papa no siempre aumenta la producción
November 09, 2015
Usar semilla certificada de papa no siempre aumenta la producción
A esa conclusión llegaron los autores de un estudio realizado por el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), cuyos resultados fueron resumidos en un artículo publicado en el blog de la institución.
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Chile: Detectan venta de papa argentina en área libre de plagas
November 07, 2015
Chile: Detectan venta de papa argentina en área libre de plagas
Durante una fiscalización realizada al comercio de papas, el Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, SAG, detectó 2 mil kilos de papa argentina en venta en una frutería ubicada en Rahue Bajo, Osorno.
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Turquía trabaja para registrar una nueva variedad de papa resistente a la sequía, llamada "Allah diyen sarisi".
November 06, 2015
Turquía registra una nueva variedad de papa resistente a la sequía
La Facultad de Agricultura de la Universidad de Gaziosmanpasa está llevando a cabo la obtención y el registro de la nueva variedad con el apoyo del Consejo de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica de Turquía (TUBITAK).
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Question asked to Australian consumers (N=301): What information on potato packaging would encourage you to purchase?(Potato Tracker Wave 12; August 2015; Colmar Burton)
November 05, 2015
Potato packers missing out on sales by not listing potato variety or best before date?
Providing Australian consumers with more information on the package such as the potato variety and their uses would encourage them to buy more potatoes, according to the latest wave of Potato Tracker research.
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Prince Edward Island Potatoes get a branding make-over.
November 05, 2015
Prince Edward Island Potatoes get new logo and packaging design
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board introduces a new logo and new packaging designs in order to further strengthen the Prince Edward Island Potatoes brand
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