Potato News from Northern America

Conagra Foods announces plans to separate into two independent public companies, Conagra Brands ('Diverse portfolio of Leading Brands') and Lamb Weston ('Leading Foodservice Supplier of Frozen Potatoes')

RPE Inc., announces their partnership with Discovery Garden’s. RPE will now act as the exclusive marketing partner for Discovery Garden’s brand of gourmet potatoes.

PEI Scalloped potatoes, a potato chip flavour submitted by Jordan Cairns, wins the Lay’s® Canada Do Us a Flavour™ Tastes of Canada contest.

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is very disappointed by the decision of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries to completely discontinue disinfection services effective December 31st, 2015.

Tis the season to get ready for holiday celebrations, and Kellogg Company is offering the sweet and savory flavors people love this time of year. Pringles brings back some holiday favorites while introducing new, on-trend flavored salted-caramel crisps.

Mcdonald's is testing sweet potato fries in a number of its restaurants in Texas

'Do you want fries with that?' is the question that prompts us to think about potatoes. But there is so much more to potatoes as visitors to The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (RAWF) are learning.

The Prince Edward Island government is cutting funding to provincially-funded disinfection service, aimed at controlling potato ring rot.

The US Agency for International Development has awarded Michigan State University (MSU) a $5.8 million cooperative agreement to improve potato production in Bangladesh and Indonesia. Additional partners include the University of Minnesota and J.R. Simplot as well as in-country partners in both Bangladesh and Indonesia.

During the Company's investor meeting today, McDonald's Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Steve Easterbrook and members of senior management provided an update on the Company's Turnaround Plan

Calyxt, Inc., a Minnesota-based company focusing on developing healthier food products, has announced that it has completed the first field trials of its cold storable potato.

A PEI Potato Board survey last week revealed there were about 1,000 acres of potatoes left to be harvested across Prince Edward Island, mostly in central and western P.E.I.

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board introduces a new logo and new packaging designs in order to further strengthen the Prince Edward Island Potatoes brand

tna announces the expansion of its family of brands with the acquisition of Unique Solutions®, a leading provider of value-added inserts and onserts which are dispensed and/or applied using Unique Solutions’ full range of inserting and labeling equipment.

Based on a review of the recently released Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) agreement text, the National Potato Council (NPC) strongly supports the trade deal reached with
Australia, Brunei, Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore
and Vietnam.

The USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Potato Research Worksite is a unique, invaluable resource that helps develop better chips, fries and dehydrated flakes through improved storage and processing.

A fire in a centrifugal cooking vat in the Kettle Foods potato chips factory in Beloit caused no injuries but about USD 170.000 damage in contents

Cara Operations Limited completes acquisition of New York Fries, Canada's premium fresh cut french fry chain.