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A dry and mild winter has produced good quality potatoes in Mallorca this year, and a good proportion of them are set to be exported to the UK as British farmers struggle with their own poor harvest caused by the bad weather.

Unfavourable weather conditions have led Britain's potato stocks to drop almost 20% year-on-year, according to the Potato Council – cautioning over setbacks already this year thanks to poor weather too.

Dutch potato merchant Adrie Kleinjan of Kleinjan's Potatoes knows a thing or two about the trade: "To keep yourself afloat in the potato business, it’s no longer adequate to trade in the old-fashioned ways."

The Canadian Horticultural Council’s Potato Committee will be meeting during the CHC’s annual general meeting to be held in Ottawa March 12-15.

Today Colorado’s Jared Polis will announce, outside a reborn organic retail store in Boulder, that he is introducing a federal bill in Congress to mandate the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms in all 50 states.

La papa se ganó el primer puesto en producción agrícola en 2012: registró un aumento de producción de más del 300%

La fabricante de papas congeladas reorganizó sus negocios en el Mercosur luego de haber sufrido, en 2012, problemas para vender su producción en el país vecino.

McCain Foods Limited, propietaria de los negocios de McCain en Sudamérica, desmintió de manera tajante los rumores que señalan que la compañía se irá de la Argentina.

In Bangladesh, favourable weather conditions and higher acreage are likely to boost potato yield in the ongoing harvesting season and have already pulled down the tuber's prices, agriculture officials and cold storage operators said yesterday.

Potato breeding developments being researched by graduate students in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences of the University of Maine look to save the future of Maine’s iconic crop.

Some of Florida's potato crops (Hastings and East Palatka) took a hit when freezing temperatures moved through the area Sunday night and Monday morning.

Unseasonal rainfall in major potato-growing states has damaged the crop, resulting in a rise in its prices. Though the actual loss is yet to be ascertained, experts say the sustained, untimely rainfall would have a long-term impact.

Según estudios recientes, la población del patógeno en Kenia y parte de Uganda se ha modificado tan rápidamente que podría volverse inmanejable para los agricultores.

Cosun (parent of Aviko) can report an excellent financial result for 2012, with all business activities making a positive contribution. The result is the fruit of the strategic choices taken and consistently implemented in recent years. High sugar pric...

Greenvale AP, the UK’s leading supplier of fresh potatoes, is celebrating the one year anniversary of its first branded product, GreenVale Farm Fresh, with sales of over 1.5 million bags.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had the worst sales start to a month in seven years as payroll-tax increases hit shoppers already battling a slow economy, according to internal e-mails obtained by Bloomberg News.

A $15,000 travel grant from the Lincoln University Foundation has proved of real benefit to the farming and potato chips business of New Zealand couple Ray and Adrianne Bowan, who won the 2011 Lincoln University Foundation South Island Farmer of the Ye...

Un consorcio de ocho instituciones de Latinoamérica y España trabaja desde el 2010 para desarrollar variedades de papa adaptables a condiciones ambientales desfavorables y preparar metodologías y herramientas que aceleren el proceso.