Potato News

Careful and wise storage management decisions are your best defences against crop losses due to potato storage diseases. It is essential to know that you cannot cure tubers of diseases, but you can minimize storage losses from tuber infections.

McDonald's Corporation today announced strong operating results for the third quarter fueled by comparable sales growth. Quarterly highlights included: Global comparable sales increased 6.9% Growth in consolidated Company-operated and franchised re...

On World Food Day, the United Nations launched the International Year of the Potato which will spotlight the humble vegetable discovered in Peru that has become a staple in diets around the globe and the world's fourth largest source of food. The year-...

A probe into the culinary offerings of the UK's favourite fast food restaurants has found "shockingly high levels of salt in some family, individual, and children's meal options", which in many cases could result in kids receiving well over ...

Flavor firm Wild reports seeing a surge in interest for its diacetyl-free butter flavors, following rekindled concerns in recent months surrounding the safety of the ingredient.The group, which originally launched its flavors around four years ago, sai...

Following the Southampton study that cast safety suspicions over certain artificial colourings, ingredients firms are redoubling their development and communication efforts to highlight alternatives from other sources.The FSA-funded study conducted at ...

Syria's government renewed a ban on Lebanese  potatoes entering the country on Wednesday, claiming that the produce does not have a proper health certificate. Last week, Lebanese Agriculture Minister Talal Sahli persuaded his Syrian counterpart to lif...

El presidente del Banco Agropecuario (Agrobanco), Víctor Noriega, señaló hoy que su institución estará en capacidad de colocar hasta 1,000 millones de nuevos soles en créditos de primer y segundo piso para los agricultores durante el año 2008.

The potential of the Northern Territory to become Australia's next food bowl may be being realised, with potatoes becoming the latest successfully grown crop. A serious shortage of potatoes in southern Australia has driven up the price, making the cro...

Four Queens restaurants were recently slapped with fines for trans fat violations during routine inspections, placing them among the first establishments to be punished under new laws that require city eateries to switch to alternative oils, margarin...

Fruit juice maker Lassonde Industries Inc. (TSX:LAS.A) is buying McCain Foods Canada’s aseptic beverage business in a $13.9 million deal that will eliminate 25 jobs.The agreement involves moving production equipment from Toronto to Grand Falls, N.B., w...

Tesco, the United Kingdom's largest retailer with more than 3,200 stores in a dozen countries, is rolling out its new Fresh &Easy neighborhood store concept in Southern California, Phoenix and Las Vegas. The local office of CB Richard Ellis has b...

McCain Foods Limited announced its sponsorship of the United Nations (UN) International Year of the Potato 2008, at the official launch today in New York.The United Nations General Assembly has declared that the potato should be a major component in st...

A Wendy’s franchisee has opened what could be a new prototype for the chain, with such features as a branded coffee bar, flat-screen televisions, free Wi-Fi access and flowers on the tables, according to the owner of the unit. The Starkville restaurant...

Hoewel aardappelen en afgeleide producten veruit de populairste maaltijdbegeleiders blijven, vindt slechts 9 procent van de Vlamingen verse aardappelen eten modern. In de hoop dat 'ouderwetse' imago zo snel mogelijk om te buigen, is de grootschalige 'P...

The Idaho Ethanol Processing LLC plant, located across from J.R. Simplot Co.'s French fry processing plant on Idaho 19, was reopened in September by Westway Holdings Corp., a New Orleans-based subsidiary of ED&F Man Holdings Ltd. of London. ED&amp...

The U.S. local food movement -- which used to be elite, expensive and mostly coastal -- has gone mainstream, with a boost from environmentalists who reckon that eating what grows nearby cuts down on global warming. But do food miles -- the distance e...

Despite rising incomes and the lowest unemployment rate in 33 years, Canada’s commercial foodservice industry grew by just 3.0% in the first seven months of 2007 compared to a solid 5.1% sales increase in the first seven months of 2006. Unfavourable we...