Potato News

Door het krimpende consumptieaardappelareaal moet de Nederlandse fritesindustrie hogere prijzen gaan betalen voor haar grondstoffen. Dat zegt Jan van Hoogen, commercieel directeur van aardappelhandelshuis Agrico. "Dit jaar kunnen de contractprij...

La cadena norteamericana de comidas rápidas McDonald's anunció hoy el lanzamiento de una nueva línea de cafetería, que promete ofrecer fuerte competencia a la macro-cadena Starbucks. "Queremos avanzar desde un lugar donde se ofrecía cafetería co...

Potato growers in North Carolina will have improved access to Canadian markets next year, thanks to a bilateral trade agreement signed recently by the United States and Canada. Growers will have a limited amount of guaranteed access to Canadian market...

Albert Wada is one of America’s potato kings. Farming 12,000 acres of land in Idaho, the state that produces a third of America’s spuds, Mr Wada is one of the biggest potato farmers in the United States. He bought the business in 1972 from his father,...

McCain Foods has launched its first viral advertising campaign, Potato Parade. Potato Parade allows users to choose from hundreds of combinations of words and names to create a personalised message to send onto others. McCain's Potato Parade was crea...

Addy Risseeuw wordt met ingang van 1 januari 2008 benoemd tot technisch directeur van de NAK, de Nederlandse Algemene Keuringsdienst voor zaaizaad en pootgoed van landbouwgewassen. Risseeuw volgt Ineke Mastenbroek op. Risseeuw was sinds 2001 als direct...

The intake of acrylamide through food possibly increases the risk of endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer. The paper in which this association is described will be published shortly in the scientific journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Preven...

Same-store sales at Jack in the Box company restaurants increased 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter compared to a 5.9 percent increase during the same time last year. For the year, same-store sales at Jack in the Box company restaurants increased 6.1 p...

De week van de smaak in België is altijd zo’n mooie gelegenheid om nog eens dieper in te gaan op smaak. Het is deels een kwestie van selectie door iedereen in de aardappelketen….;leuk om te constateren dat aardappelen er soms zoals eieren uitzien, maar...

Packaged snacks are getting a lot of attention from big, branded players. So Frito-Lay, with its Lays, Cheetos, Kurkure, Lehar, Uncle Chipps and Quaker Oats snack brands is seeing some pretty concentrated competition from ITC’s Bingo! with its 16 flav...

Standard &Poor's Ratings Services signalled it may lower its ratings on Arby's Restaurant Group Inc on news that Triarc Companies Inc, of which Arby's is a wholly owned unit, has bid to buy all outstanding stock of Wendy's International Inc.'Althou...

After the success of its upgraded drip coffee -- which even managed to snag a thumbs-up from testers at Consumer Reports earlier this year -- McDonald's is gearing up for a massive expansion into the world of lattes."We want to move from beverage...

A Herefordshire potato grower who lost nearly £500,000 of crop in this summer's floods has vowed never to grow potatoes again for one the country's biggest processors after it refused to make allowances for the damage inflicted to his crop. Peter Vaugh...

Researchers from the US Agricultural Research Service (ARS) claim to have stabilised a process of using extrusion technology to make healthy and tasty snacks out of legumes.

Allan Parker, President of World Potato Congress Inc., announced today that Christchurch has been selected as the site of the 7th International World Potato Congress to be held in March 2009. It’s the first time the Congress will be held in the South...

Othello and food processor J.R. Simplot agreed upon a new water contract to gradually increase Simplot's rates by 32 percent over the next five years.Simplot is the town's largest water user. Simplot paid the city $345,360 for water this year for about...

Frito-Lay is embarking on an ambitious plan to change the way its Casa Grande factory operates, and in the process, create a new type of snack: the environmentally benign chip. Goal is to take the Casa Grande plant off the power grid, or nearly so, a...

Hoping to lure health-conscious consumers, Frito-Lay plans to introduce a line of premium nuts and baked crackers, the snack-maker's parent company said Wednesday.   True North, a line of nuts, nut clusters and chips made of nuts, will launch in the ...