Potato News

Snack Alliance Inc. (SAI) is pleased to announce several new, vital partnerships with recognized brokers within the Vend community to introduce riceworks® Gourmet Brown Rice Crisps to the Vend channel. With these new broker relationships, riceworks® wi...

This season promises to be a bad one for potato blemish disease black dot, UK potato growers are being advised.“Black dot levels after harvest and throughout storage tend to be lower when a crop is harvested early,” said Dr Jeff Peters of the CSL Plant...

As a long-standing cornerstone of KFC, world's most popular chicken restaurant chain, Sanders' Original Recipe ranks among America's most valuable trade secrets. "The concept of having a secret recipe is priceless and it provides KFC with a meanin...

McDonald's Corp. Tuesday said August global same-store sales rose 8.5%, while systemwide sales rose 14.1%, or 10% in constant currencies.   Systemwide sales rose 5.4% in McDonald's U.S. division, while European systemwide sales were up 21.5%. Systemwid...

Bayer's LibertyLink® soybeans A 2704-12 cleared an important hurdle today, receiving final approval from the European Commission for importation into the European Union for food and feed use.

Uit de laatste proefrooiingen van het PCA op 1 september jl. blijkt dat de groei van de aardappelgewassen eruit is. In de vroeg geplante percelen in Vlaanderen blijkt verder dat het percentage grof dit seizoen tegenvalt. De gewassen zijn dit jaar ook e...

Avebe heeft het afgelopen boekjaar afgesloten met een recordwinst van 36 miljoen euro, het hoogste resultaat ooit voor het aardappelzetmeelconcern.

Thanks in part to a large percentage of high-quality, No. 1-graded product, markets for new-crop russet potatoes are continuing where markets left off at the end of the storage season: red hot.On Sept. 9, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported pri...

On a sunny afternoon in Florenceville-Bristol, McCain Foods officially opened its $65-million potato processing plant on Thursday, Sept. 4.The plant was announced in 2006 and began construction in the spring of 2007. It replaces the first factory ever ...

The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company, Carleton County’s newest tourism destination is receiving a half-a-million dollar boost from the federal government. The facility is on its way to a November opening.The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company will es...

Health has led to wealth for UK-based JLM Global Foods Ltd.After wowing health-conscious exhibitors at a trade event in Germany, the low-fat snack manufacturer’s potato crisps are now being sold across Belgium under a private label.The products contain...

McDonald's ha querido demostrar en su última campaña publicitaria que ‘la comida rápida no es sinónimo de comida basura'. Por eso ha creado un anuncio destacando que sus alimentos son naturales y una página web en la que los clientes pueden hacer sus p...

Idaho potato acres are down, and the next few weeks could determine whether yields are down, too. Development of the crop was about two weeks behind during the early part of the growing season because of a long, cold spring.The potato crop has caught u...

Bosch's Packaging Technology Division plans to acquire Paal Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH &Co. KG, based in Remshalden near Stuttgart. The purchase agreement was signed on September 5, 2008.

While the food companies, like other large advertisers, pulled back on their spending as the economy soured, many big foodmakers plan advertising punches in the coming months. The shift comes as consumers worried about rising costs eat at home more a...

Chef Yutaka Yamazaki of the Technology Development Division of Saint-Germain made potato pan bread for this study. Based on his experience in Europe, he recommends making bread with potatoes. He used US dehy standard potato flakes, which have high qual...

The world production of rapeseed is expected to grow more than 13% in 2008 to 54.4 million tons after a stagnation in the last two years. With 18.2 million tons the EU-27 is by far the largest producer in 2007 (+13%) and production is still growing. Ge...

Good weather in Northeast China and other areas continue to solidify high expectations of a good harvest. Total oilseeds production is expected to be six percent higher in marketing year 2008/09, while new soybean projections are significantly higher t...