News on The Potato Supply Chain from the Americas

The USPB is pleased to deliver the industry’s sales and utilization estimates for calendar year 2010. The full report is attached following this story.

An Aug. 12 merger between Colorado-based Farm Fresh Direct LLC and two out-of-state potato shippers has FFD laying claim to being the largest grower-owned fresh potato shipper in the United States. According to Dave Yeager, vice president of business ...

The University of Maine Cooperative Extension says late blight sightings have been confirmed over the last month throughout Aroostook County and the Midcoast areas. Meanwhile, the Maine Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers Association has received reports...

Adaptación de una entrevista que hicieran recientemente a su autor, Zósimo Huamán. El texto completo se encuentra disponible en esta página.

Wisconsin hosted a group of potatoes growers from Brazil last week, who came to the United States as part of a reverse trade mission sponsored by the United States Potato Board. The growers are interested in obtaining seed potatoes from the U.S., speci...

The rainy spring and summer have put a damper on the Aroostook County potato growing season, but the head of the Maine Potato Board said Wednesday that the industry remains optimistic about this year’s crop. Don Flannery, executive director of the boa...

There are now 21 confirmed cases of late blight on Preince Edward Island, including a first-time-ever case confirmed of blight in a rogue potato plant in a soy bean field. The majority of cases are in potato fields in the western part of the province....

In an effort to better understand today’s potato consumer, the Prince Edward Island Potato Board has embarked upon a market study through an online survey. The Potato Board has been working on an in-depth consumer and branding study with Ipsos-Reid re...

The President of the World Potato Congress (WPC) Inc. Mr Allan Parker, Canada, and the Chairman of the WPC Awards Committee, Mr Douglas (Doug) Harley, Kinross, Scotland, have announced that nominations are now being called for the 2012 World Potato Con...

Some Prince Edward Island potato farmers are facing a serious infestation of wireworm and the only fix is about to be taken off the market. Wireworm is a pest that spends four years in the ground, feeding on potatoes and other vegetables. Then it turn...

Scientists of the Texas A&M University, writing in the Journal of Food Process Engineering, report that short frying time and/or longer centrifuging time combinations would maximize oil removal from the chip's surface during vacuum frying. Accord...

The Famous Idaho® Potato Bowl was unveiled today as the new name for the Humanitarian Bowl which features a top selection from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The nation’s longest-running outdoor cold-weathe...

Es uno de los siete proyectos de la Escuela de Ingeniería UC que se adjudicó un FONDEF este año. Presentado como un proyecto de interés público, “Minimización de la formación de acrilamida en alimentos de consumo masivo en Chile” pretende determinar el...

The Idaho Potato Commission appointed Jim Tiede, of American Falls, IPC Chairman and Alan Taylor, of Rigby, IPC vice-chairman for 2012 during their monthly meeting in Eagle, ID, on Wednesday, July 27. They will begin their one-year terms at the Septemb...

Kinze® Manufacturing, Inc. today unveiled an innovative solution to increase productivity on the farm—the Kinze Autonomy Project. The technology, which is the first of its kind in row crop production worldwide, utilizes autonomous agricultural equipmen...

Potandon Produce will be the exclusive marketing agent for Campbell Farms fresh potatoes. Under this arrangement, Potandon will focus on the marketing and sales of the Campbell Farms crop, which will enable Campbell Farms to focus on quality, farming, ...

The National Restaurant Association has decided to move up the NRA show 2012 to avoid overlap with the Global G8 and NATO Summit. Those events are set for May 15 through 22, 2012. The 2012 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show w...

Twenty of Harvard University’s finest foodservice professionals recently competed in a recipe contest to transform Idaho® potatoes, a beloved American staple, into mouth-watering masterpieces with an international flair.