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Following six years of unprecedented growth of Idaho® potatoes into international markets, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) has hired Amanda Albers as its first International Marketing Manager

The head of the Washington State Potato Commission ended a self-imposed diet of potatoes-only that he said allowed him to shed more than 20 pounds in two months.

Durante las últimas décadas, la industria belga de procesamiento de papa ha experimentado un crecimiento espectacular. Ya en 1995 procesaba cerca de 500.000 toneladas de papas, entre bastones frescos y congelados, croquetas de todas las formas, papas ...

The Potato Man proudly lined up a bunch of them on a counter in his family's kitchen: a really nice assortment of russets that, in the next days, would end up in his belly.

During the past few decades, the Belgian potato-processing industry experienced spectacular growth.

In their series of interviews with key people in the US potato industry, Spudman interviewed Frank Muir.

Researchers funded by the BBSRC Crop Science Initiative have made a discovery that could instigate a paradigm shift in breeding resistance to Phytophthora infestans

The Potato Council has confirmed that it is increasing its levy for 2011/2012 by 3%.

The preliminary production estimate for the 2010 Canadian potato crop is 97,279,000 hundredweights (4 412 575 tonnes).

On independent restaurant menus, potatoes of all kinds account for 44% of all carbs, according to MenuMine.

The Potato Council’s provisional estimate of Total Production in Great Britain for the 2010 crop year is 5.817 million tons, down 6.1% from 2009.

De uitspraak van het Europese Hof van Justitie, waarin staat dat de publicatie van EU-subsidiegegevens onrechtmatig is, moet ook in Nederland leiden tot een aanpassing van beleid, vindt voorzitter Albert Jan Maat van LTO Nederland.

Canadian Horticultural Council (CHC) Potato Committee Chair Keith Kuhl announced recently that Mark Drouin has been named Vice President, Potatoes effective October 19, 2010.

Fenland farmer Richard Lee will parade a giant potato harvester through the heart of London next weekend.

AUSVEG CEO Richard Mulcahy has welcomed the proposal for a briefing of the Senate Rural Affairs and Transport Committee on Zebra Chip disease, following a recent request by New Zealand to import fresh potatoes for processing into Australia.

This morning, with its partners and several guests from the food and packaging fields in attendance, Polytechnique Montréal inaugurated the NSERC/Saputo/Excel Pac Industrial Research Chair in Materials and films for safe, smart and sustainable (3S) packaging.

Potato growers across the United States appear to have finished digging the 2010 crop, but a few potatoes remain in the ground on Canada's Prince Edward Island.

De oogst van consumptieaardappelen zal lager uitvallen dan de ramingen die het CBS eerder vandaag bekendmaakte.