News on The Potato Supply Chain from the Americas

Loblaw Companies Limited and Strang's Produce Inc. are voluntarily recalling certain Farmer's Market and Strang's Produce brands of Russet Potatoes from the marketplace due to possible food tampering with nails and needles.

Prince Edward Island RCMP Major Crime Unit responded to a potential food tampering incident on May 18, 2015, following a complaint that a metal object was found in a potato.

Potato Producers Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick all have reached a deal with the French Fry manufacturers.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has joined forces with McCain Foods Canada and the province’s potato growers in a major project to improve potato yields in New Brunswick by improving soil health.

Con el propósito de generar una caracterización del cultivo de papa en el país, Fedepapa y Upr se unen para determinar las zonas de los departamentos que sean óptimas para el cultivo del tubérculo.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) thursday published the 2014 Agricultural Chemical Use survey data for corn and fall potatoes.

CSS, along with RPE, Carrollton, Texas-based Pro-Health® and Stevens Point, Wisconsin-based Plover River Farms Alliance, Inc. partnered together and opened a new, stainless steel, 200,000 square foot facility near Bakersfield dedicated to Tasteful Selections specialty potatoes.

From soup to strata and everything in between, creative cooking with your kids just got easier! The United States Potato Board (USPB) and The Kids Cook Monday just released 52 Mondays, a potato recipe cookbook for families.

Potato planting season in Prince Edward Island, Canada has been pushed back by about two weeks due to the record-setting snowfall this winter and spring.

Ceres, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERE), an agricultural biotechnology company, today announced that the company has licensed its Persephone bioinformatics software to global seed potato developer, HZPC Holland BV.

Lamb Weston now provides restaurant operators in North America with a tool to find out where the potatoes that become their fries originated and then share that information with their customers.

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer has urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prioritize the replacement and modernization of the Federal Nematode Quarantine Facility at Cornell University in the Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Capitol Investment Strategy for Fiscal Year 2016.

La enfermedad no es nueva pero se agudizó debido a los cambios climáticos “poco comunes”.

Los parientes silvestres de los cultivos son especies de plantas silvestres que comparten un ancestro común con los cultivos. Mantienen un alto nivel de diversidad genética que los hace una fuente invalorable de materia prima para el mejoramiento de los cultivos. Sin embargo, su disponibilidad para fines de investigación depende la cobertura y estado de las colecciones de germoplasma mantenidas en los bancos genéticos.

Este aumento en la productividad en el cultivo se debe a que a través del Proyecto de Nacional de Semillas para Cadenas Agro Estratégicas se dotó de paquetes tecnológicos a los pequeños productores

Variedades con propiedades saludables, que demanden menos fertilizantes y agroquímicos, que sean más tolerantes a la sequía y tengan formatos y colores que se adapten a la industria y el consumo fresco, en los mercados internos y de exportación...

A study published in JAMA Pediatrics shows that a diet high in potassium may protect teenagers from high blood pressure in adulthood. Since potatoes are a major dietary source of potassium, the potato sector should take note of this research.

La aceptación del sabor y de la textura de nuevas variedades de papa es una condición de su éxito con los agricultores y consumidores. Con el fin de potenciar esta actividad, desde noviembre de 2014 el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) inició una nueva experiencia, involucrando a su propio personal no especializado en los estudios de evaluación sensorial.