News on The Potato Supply Chain

A delayed start to Europe's potato's plantings has prompted ideas of a revival in potato prices, whose decline this year on futures markets, despite inventories at a "historically low level"has puzzled investors.

La revista PAPA de la Federación Colombiana de Productores de Papa (FEDEPAPA) ha publicado un artículo sobre el potencial de desarrollo y fortalecimiento de la seguridad alimentaria en base a papa, en Colombia (2013).

Idaho seems to have won an international trademark dispute over its most famous product.

For the past two seasons, Brendon Rockey has planted peas, chickling vetch and buckwheat in the same rows as potatoes, using a specially designed seeder.

Minka-dev está recibiendo propuestas de impulsores o inversores para agregar valor a la papa nativa y que esta pueda consolidarse como un producto de alto valor agregado.

The National Potato Council is investigating options to restore USDA potato stocks estimates cut due to budget sequestration, including industry funding to cover the work or identifying offsetting cuts to less important potato reports.

Restructuring and corporate advisory firm McGrathNicol was yesterday appointed as receivers following Heard Phillips being appointed administrators of the company.

Potandon Produce LLC announced that Kent Romrell, senior vice president of sales, will retire at the end of March after a career in produce spanning over 30 years.

Entre los datos compartidos por el entomólogo Graham Walker de Nueva Zelanda, durante su visita a la Universidad de Chile, uno de los generó más impacto hace relación con el ingreso a aquél país del psílido de la papa. La pregunta obligada: ¿es esa pla...

Apartes mas importantes del documento "Best practice for seed handling and storage"que recientemente publicó el Potato Council del Reino Unido.

It appears that potato psyllids, the tiny winged insects that can spread zebra chip disease in potato fields, will overwinter in Boise, Idaho, this season, despite the city experiencing one of its coldest Januaries on record.

Una invitación a participar en una alianza para el monitoreo de la diversidad genética de las papas nativas, denominada “Iniciativa Chirapaq La Ruta del Arcoiris”, que está encabezando el Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), formuló Stef De Haan, inv...

Some farmers on P.E.I. are dealing with the problem of potatoes rotting in storage this winter and growers in the western part of the province are especially hard hit.

Red, right size and low on sugar, Lady Rosetta is the flavour of the season for north Gujarat’s farmers.

The United States Potato Board website for consumers, Potatogoodness.com has been redesigned end 2012.

Njoroge is studying a new lineage of Phytophthora infestans called KE-1 that is spreading rapidly across East Africa.

El municipio nicaragüense de Tisma logró cultivar papa de consumo en una zona cálida e inusual para producir el tubérculo, anunció la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), con el apoyo de la Fundación para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Agropecuario y F...

Tim O’Connor, President and CEO of the U.S. Potato Board, Denver, CO, has accepted an offer to lead a new marketing agency dedicated to the Mexican avocado industry.