News on The Potato Supply Chain from Northern America

A new potato variety that’s genetically modified to withstand bruising has been cleared for commercialization without undergoing USDA’s deregulatory process for biotech crops.

Up until recently, Alex Docherty, chairman of the PEI Potato Board and a potato farmer in Elmwood, P.E.I., would do what most potato farmers on the Island still do today - hire rock pickers. But this fall, his new Spudnik AirSep Harvester is separating the rocks from the potatoes

Cornell University receives $1.2 million of new state funding to upgrade the Federal Golden Nematode Lab

Phillip Nolte, extensionista de la Universidad de Idaho, especializado en semilla de papa, explica la forma de influir en el estado de los cultivos al salir de las bodegas.

RPE Inc., has created Old Oak Farms Party Potatoes. Quick and easy to prepare, Party Potatoes are fingerling potatoes that transform ordinary dinners into extraordinary parties!

Earthfresh Farms introduces a first to North America: The Carisma, a Low Glycemic Response potato variety.

Prince Edward Island recaptured the unofficial record for the largest potato display, with a 140,000 pounds display at the Superstore in Charlottetown last Thursday.

Lower retail prices for several foods, including eggs, whole milk, cheddar cheese, chicken breast, sirloin tip roast and ground chuck resulted in a decrease in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Fall Harvest Marketbasket Survey. However, potato prices were up slightly.

Just when some potato growers in the Red River Valley were beginning to make some progress with the harvest, Mother Nature stepped in and slammed the door.

The North-western European Potato Growers (NEPG) expect in the 5 covered countries (NL, B, FR, GB, DE) a lower production of potatoes (seed and potatoes.for starch production not included) compared to last season.

United States potato production in 2015 is revised to 441 million cwt, up slightly from the estimate in the January Crop Production 2015 Summary but slightly below the 2014 crop.

The Idaho Potato Commission recently appointed Ritchey Toevs of Toevs Farm as Chairman and Lynn Wilcox of Wilcox, Floyd & Sons as Vice Chairman.

Prince Edward Island Open Farm Day is this Sunday, September 18th, with thirty farms across the province opening their doors to welcome the public. Three potato farms are welcoming visitors this year.

Yesterday, Agrium Inc. (TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (PotashCorp) (TSX: POT) (NYSE: POT) announced that they have agreed to combine in a merger of equals to create a world-class integrated global supplier of crop inputs.

El mercado mundial de la papa ha experimentado cambios profundos. Hasta principios de la década del 90, la mayoría de las papas se producían y consumían en Europa, América del Norte y los países de la antigua Unión Soviética. Desde entonces, ha habido un aumento dramático en la producción y demanda en Asia, África y América Latina.

Howard Culberson & Sons of Jacksonville, NB was named the 2015-2016 McCain Champion Potato Grower for Florenceville-Bristol during the 43rd annual McCain Growers’ Banquet.

United Potato Growers of America President/CEO, Jerry Wright, announced his coming retirement at the August 23 Board of Directors meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Big data was something McCain Foods discovered by chance. 'What happened really was we have some research projects and those projects appeared to be in the realm of big data,' says Leclerc, who will be speaking at the Big Data Congress in Saint John, New Brunswick next month.