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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service has established a new destination inspection process for Canadian potatoes entering the U.S., as part of a new trade agreement between the two countries.The objective of this process i...

Las principales cadenas del país ya sufren la falta de carne. Algunas debieron trasladar estos problemas a los precios. Las fábricas de papas fritas se vieron obligadas a cerrar momentáneamente   En el caso de Mc Donald’s, los mayores costos generados ...

Wendy's International, Incannounced today it has signed development agreements to open Wendy's restaurants in two major Mexico cities--Monterrey and Mexico City. Under these agreements, two new franchisees will build and operate more than 60 restauran...

Bart Connors of Pasco, WA, was elected Chairman of the United States Potato Board (USPB) on March 14 at the organization’s Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Connors is the general manager of Skone & Connors Produce.

The United States Potato Board (USPB) grower membership elected new leadership during its Annual Meeting held in Denver, CO, March 12-14. The following sections list the leadership for the coming year. CHAIRMAN             Bart Connors (Pasco , WA) DO...

A new study suggests that the relative size of starch granules used in a blend could determine overall gelation behaviour and whether or not the starch components add to each others' properties or interact to deliver new ones. Starches have widespread ...

Mc Cain Argentina, con sede en Balcarce, emitió un comunicado. Suspensión de personal.   Balcarce, 30 de Marzo de 2008    A la Comunidad de Balcarce     Cómo empresa integrante de ésta comunidad, esperamos que el Gobierno Nacional y El Campo Argentin...

PepsiCo and Strauss Group announced that the formation of a joint venture partnership to operate Sabra, the top-selling and fastest-growing maker of hummus, has been completed. Sabra had sales of $65 million in 2007. Last year, total U.S. sales of humm...

Martin-Brower Co., a major distributor for McDonald's Corp. restaurants, has will triple in size by purchasing 22 acres in The Woodlands. The Rosemont, Ill.-based company currently services McDonald's stores in South Central Texas out of a distributio...

Burger King Holdings Inc. plans to start building a new version of its restaurants this year called the Whopper Bar that will sell a wider variety of its signature hamburger in a hipper setting. The menu and size of the Whopper Bars will be smaller tha...

McDonald's provided consumers an update on sustainable packaging enhancement they have been making and enacting worldwide. The update was posted on the company's corporate social responsibility blog, Open for Discussion and features a Youtube video. T...

Local counties can't require restaurants to post nutrition information about their menu items under a bill that easily passed the (Georgia) Senate Thursday. The bill, which sailed through the House earlier this session, now goes to the governor's desk...

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America's leading packaged food companies, today reported results for the fiscal 2008 third quarter ended Feb. 24, 2008. Current-quarter diluted EPS from continuing operations was $0.63;items impacting com...

As food prices surge, America’s supermarkets are also feeling the pain. While consumer food prices are up five percent, wholesale prices have soared a whopping 20 percent. CNBC talked to the chief executives of General Mills and SuperValu to get their...

La cadena realiza estudios de mercado con el fin de incluir pollo asado en su menú, para quienes prefieren no consumir la comida frita característica de la compañía.   Así, KFC, con más de 14 mil locales de comida en más de 80 países sigue la tendenci...

The newest demonstration of solar power(figuratively) is coming from the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo, which is using the sun to help transform its SunChips line of multigrain snack chips into a “green” brand. The initiative is centered on the additio...

Overview of the different potato nematodes that occur in North America and a description of their life cycle, effects and management.

Key Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTEC) announced today that Gordon Wicher, Sr. Vice President of Global Operations, will retire from the Company effective May 30, 2008. "Gordon has served Key Technology with energy, wisdom, integrity, and vision f...