Potato News

In the United Kingdom, the Potato Council is seeking to raise awareness for the new season crop, with a TV advertising burst to hit screens in July.

Greenvale, the UK’s leading potato supplier, will be celebrating the return of this season’s British Gems baby new potatoes in Sainsbury’s with a marketing campaign heralding the great British summer and a season jam-packed with iconic British events.

They may not be the healthiest of foods but crisps are still the second most popular snack in the UK, research shows. But with crisps made from other vegetables and even fruit now on the market, is the classic potato crisp under threat?

Snackex es la feria especializada en los sectores de los snacks salados y frutos secos más importante de Europa. Organizada por la Asociación Europea de Aperitivos (ESA), este evento bienal se celebra por primera vez en Gotenburgo (Suecia)

Tesco stores in the South West of England will receive the first Cornish potatoes from Branston this week.

Irish Research Institute Teagasc hopes to begin planting out more than 5,000 potato plants in the next two weeks, in the second phase of its study into the environmental impact of blight-resistant genetically modified (GM) potatoes.

McDonald's Corporation today announced that global comparable sales increased 2.6% in May.

Especialistas de la Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM) aprobaron un producto que retarda el envejecimiento de la planta de papa y aumenta la producción y la calidad de este tubérculo, informaron voceros de esa casa superior de estudios.

El Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (Magap) compartió con los productores las experiencias en la utilización de la semilla certificada del tubérculo.

La escasez tanto en España como en el resto del continente durante la presente campaña provoca la subida de los precios en origen a niveles que no se recordaban en el sector.

De propagarse, la región Los Ríos, dónde inicialmente se ha detectado, perdería la calidad de zona libre de enfermedades cuarentenarias, y los agricultores podrían perder hasta el 100 por ciento de sus cultivos.

La nueva asociación está formada por trece socios, entre cooperativas, empresas y autónomos. Tiene presencia en las provincias de Burgos, Palencia, Álava y Navarra, y representa a una amplia mayoría del sector.

Volunteer potato plants growing from seed infected with zebra chip are likely too few in number and survive too briefly to contribute to the spread of the crop disease, according to new Oregon State University research findings.

Baker Perkins will showcase its technology and services that enable snack manufacturers to take advantage of new market opportunities, at Snackex 2013

Want to learn more about Electrostatic flavour application? then make sure to visit Spice Application Systems at the Snackex in stand 125.

At Snackex, Lamine Lahouasnia, Head of Packaged Food Research at Euromonitor International, will provide a strategic insight and analysis on how retailer own brands are developing and what manufacturers are doing to keep one step ahead of private labels.

Harvester specialist the Ploeger Oxbo Group announced in June it had acquired all the shares of SAS Bourgoin Investissements, the Bourgoin Group, headquartered in Bournezeau, France.

Se trata de la I Rueda de Negocios entre productores y empresas de la cadena, cuyo principal objetivo fue el de concretar negocios entre quienes producen y compran diferentes clases de papa.