Potato News

Although consumers are spending a limited amount of their total and food expenditure on fresh fruit and vegetables, price is among the top purchase criteria. However, market observations show that fruit and vegetables are not expensive or becoming more...

School cooks across the country are being offered new inspiration for using potatoes on healthy menus for children

Volgens het NAPMN (North American Potato Market News) zal het areaal aardappelen in de Verenigde Staten t.o.v. 2010 voor oogstjaar 2011 met 5% toenemen.

De prijs voor aardappelen is aan een steile val bezig. Eind januari werd op de veiling nog meer dan 26 euro betaald voor 100 kg, nu is dat maar 18 euro meer.

A New York City lawmaker has proposed a bill that would ban fast-food restaurant gimmicks that include children's toys, like the McDonald's Happy Meal, unless the meal meets certain nutritional standards.

This week, the Washington Department of Labor and Industries investigation cited Washington Potato Company for 12 serious safety violations and three repeat serious violations with a $99,000 penalty.

There is still no word on why Henk Tepper of New Brunswick is in custody in Lebanon.

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 230 points in March 2011, down 2.9 percent from its peak in February, but still 37 percent above March last year. International prices of oils and sugar contracted the most, followed by cereals. By contrast, da...

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) today kicked off a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hamburger University, its signature training and education facility. In 1961, Hamburger University began in a McDonald's restaurant basement in Elk ...

Fair Trade, organic, sustainable and eco-friendly are making their way on to package labels across all categories, but how do consumers actually view these products?

McDonald’s Corp. officials said the company’s plan to hire 50,000 people in one day presents it with an opportunity to show that a “McJob” isn’t a dead end but rather the start of a career.

A New Brunswick potato farmer has been detained in Lebanon. Grand Falls-area farmer Henk Tepper of Tobique Farms has been arrested upon entry to the country that sits on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Tasmanian potato growers supplying McCain Foods have accepted a price rise for their current crop.

The Koenig distillery is beautifully industrial--a steampunk's dream--and today all that gleaming, steaming, needle-twitching splendor is producing a glorious, colorless, odorless and seemingly tasteless liquid.

Given that world potato production is about 320 million tons per year (20 million tons per year in the United States) and world tomato production is about 120 million tons per year (13 million tons per year in the U.S.), late blight is a major problem worldwide even today.

A pesar de la temporada de lluvias importantes durante el invierno, se ha podido realizar un adecuado ritmo de siembra, por lo que el leve retraso previsto de la cosecha en el mes de enero ha quedado sin efecto. Además, el tiempo óptimo que se está dis...

So you don’t quite feel up to struggling through all 183 pages of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed menu-labeling regulation?

Stamppot to go, een innovatief eetconcept uit 2009, houdt op te bestaan. Het stamppotconcept is geen succes geworden.