News on The Potato Supply Chain

Ballarat district potato growers have struck a new price deal with McCain Foods, months ahead of schedule. The growers will be paid an increase of $15 a tonne of potatoes for next year's crop.

In North America, summer potato markets are strengthening as the East Coast deal shifts from northern Florida to North Carolina.

Branston's potato trucks get noticed. The huge images on the sides of the trucks (liveries) feature a potato family (Mr Potato Head reinvented) and merge humor and education. Definitely one of the fresher marketing messages on potatoes I have seen lat...

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker-Tecnalia, is leading an international project with the goal of developing new potato varieties which are tolerant to the effects of climate change, as well as to identify already e...

After several months of consumption of stored potatoes, it is time for new potatoes, the early potato, with all the flavor and freshness, because they are newly harvested. Under the slogan "A seasonal flavor"Amdalusian Early potatoes are pro...

Nearly seven weeks after his detention, a Lebanese prosecutor is now mulling over the case of a Canadian farmer alleged to have exported rotten potatoes to Algeria.

The Chief Operating Officer of the United Potato Growers of America offers his view of the potato prices this summer:

El Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Neiker-Tecnalia, lidera un proyecto internacional para desarrollar nuevas variedades de patata que resistan mejor los efectos del cambio climático, así como identificar los tipos de tubérculos q...

Eén dag na de vernieling van het proefveld namen de onderzoekers van het Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek (ILVO) de tijd om de schade op te meten.

Met nagenoeg een verdubbeling van het aantal exposanten, een groeiende perceelsoppervlakte en nog meer machines in demo, lijkt alles erop te wijzen dat PotatoEurope 2011 weer een schot in de roos wordt. Hét aardappelevenement van het jaar gaat door op ...

Na een jarenlange en vruchtbare samenwerking en teneinde deze samenwerking te bestendigen en nog te versterken is er een overeenkomst tot stand gekomen waarbij Agristo, gevestigd te Harelbeke, alle aandelen verwerft van Willequet, gevestigd te Nazareth.

his year, Sainsbury's is launching a new British potato variety, offering consumers the exclusive opportunity to enjoy a home grown favourite throughout the summer months.

The rapid growth in farm output that defined the late 20th century has slowed to the point that it is failing to keep up with the demand for food, driven by population increases and rising affluence in once-poor countries.

Washington potatoes are not only good for you, their production is highly sustainable.

Prince Edward Island potato farmers, kept out of their fields by weeks of rain, are frantically trying to catch up with their planting.

Revisions to the grading standards for No. 1 potatoes allow for mixed varieties of potatoes to be packaged together, as requested by grower/shippers and retailers.

Rising costs for food and fuel have dominated headlines and weighed heavily on the minds of restaurant operators.