News On French Fries and Potato Specialties from Oceania

Simplot Australia managing director Terry O'Brien has nominated a floor price Tasmanian potato farmers may have to accept to continue growing for the food processor. Speaking after the company announced the results of price negotiations with potato gr...

Simplot's Tasmanian processing potato prices have been cut by 11 per cent and contracts reduced by around 30,000 tonnes.

Potatoes New Zealand has welcomed an Australian Government draft report which is expected to open the door to the export of fresh potatoes for processing from New Zealand to Australia.

French Fry manufacturer McCain Foods has been accused by the Victorian Farmers Federation of using 'bully-boy tactics' to push potato growers in Victoria and Tasmania to the financial brink.

McCain's decision to use cheap potato imports rather than Australian-grown product will have devastating effects on the entire industry, according to AUSVEG

A study of potato farming has found that it costs up to double the amount to grow spuds in Australia than it does overseas.

Supermarket chain Woolworths is in talks with McCain Foods for it to supply potatoes to a new line of frozen home-brand products.

The Food &Grocery Council is welcoming a significant drop in concentration of acrylamide in potato crisps, and says it will continue to work with industry to find ways of lowering its levels in other foods, CEO Katherine Rich said today. She is re...

A new Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) report shows that the concerted effort by New Zealand's potato crisp manufacturers to lower acrylamide in their products is paying off.

Vegetable processor Simplot has reaffirmed its commitment to keep its two factories in the North-West Tasmania for as long as viable.

McDonald's will channel its marketing cash into activities that give Australians a look behind the golden arches in the hope they will fall back in love with the brand.

In Australia, just one per cent of purchases are from McDonald's healthy range of foods. The research, conducted by the Cancer Council, is the first to confirm that healthy options are rarely being purchased by eat-in diners.

McCain Foods in Ballarat has denied plans to shift its local plant to New Zealand within 18 months.

The Victorian Farmers Federation is worried about the long-term future of the giant McCain Foods' processing plant in Ballarat.

It is not all one-way traffic from New Zealand to Australia as recent significant business decisions by Heinz-Wattie's and McCain Foods have shown.

Fourth-generation potato farmer Dominic Prendergast is hoping for a better potato season than last year. At the beginning of this year he led a group of Ballarat growers in a successful protest for better prices against global food giant McCain. In M...

Potatoes and other reportedly high-GI foods might not be the dietary villains that recent publicity, books and health-based programmes would claim them to be, a new University of Otago study suggests.

McCain Foods is hopeful union discussions will resolve pay disputes before further industrial action hampers production at the Ballarat plant. Union representatives are expected to meet with McCain on Monday next week ahead of possible strikes on Tues...