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Chairman of the Agrarian-Peasant Union of Armenia Hrachya Berberyan said that potato price at the local market is expected to double in spring 2012 to reach AMD 350-400 per kilo. This will be conditioned by the summer drought that resulted in loss of 4...

Fast-casual growth continues to outpace that of quick service and full service. Though it’s still a small segment—comprising 6 percent of the restaurant industry—its influence is great. With origins in once-innovative concepts such as Fuddruckers an...

Taypack Potatoes, based near Inchture, supplies Mackie's crisps and the firm is aiming to break into the lucrative export market. However, this move has received a major setback with Mackie's Aberdeen Angus beef-flavoured crisps being banned in Americ...

Onderzoekers aan de Universiteit van Wisconsin-Madison zijn gekozen om een nationale multi-institutionele poging tot kwaliteitsverbetering van verwerkte aardappels te leiden. Volgens de USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture is er door het ...

Het is al weer decennia geleden, sinds er echt grote ontwikkelingen waren in het schrapproces bij de verwerking van aardappelen, wortelen, groenten en fruit. Marcelissen verandert dat nu.

De Nederlandse aardappelverwerkende industrie heeft in de periode oktober 2010 t/m september 2011 een record hoeveelheid aardappelen verwerkt tot consumptieproducten. De totale verwerkte hoeveelheid aardappelen was bijna 3,5 miljoen ton. In de vergeli...

McDonald’s Corp. is eyeing opportunities to gain global market share by continuing to optimize its menu, updating restaurants and expanding tiered value and premium-item promotions, executives told analysts in a call following the company’s third-quart...

The National Potato Council (NPC) applauded today’s complete suspension of the retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports by the government of Mexico. The action comes in response to last week’s approval of the first Mexico-based carrier by the U.S. Departmen...

Two new infestations of a microscopic wormlike pest that attacks potato plants have been discovered in eastern Idaho, state and federal agriculture officials say. Lloyd Knight of the Idaho Department of Agriculture said that both infestations of the p...

De Belgapomprijs is de meest gehanteerde prijs, waargenomen op de vorige werkdag voor Bintje, voor verwerking tot diepgevroren aardappelproducten , veldgewas 35 mm+, frietgeschikt, af producent, los op wagen, voor onmiddellijke levering/ophaling. Vo...

With 99 percent of this year’s approximately 56,000 acres of potatoes harvested, Aroostook County potato growers are watching the stored product to gauge the effect of massive amounts of rainfall this past summer. Don Flannery, executive director of t...

Last week, we at Hudson Institute issued a study titled 'Better-for-you Foods: It's Just Good Business.' We now have evidence that packaged food and beverage companies selling a higher percentage of better-for-you (BFY) products are doing better.

Potato Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon have used 13.3 million cwt of 2011 crop raw potatoes to October 1, up 75 percent from last year. Idaho potatoes accounted for 9.46 million cwt of the total processed.

Coming off of two record years in terms of total crop value and a record yield in 2009, the Idaho potato industry will probably have to be satisfied with merely a good performance for the 2011-12 season. “We will definitely be in the five-year average...

Beneficiaries of the land reform programme who are producing potato seed in Nyanga (Zimbabwe) have expressed concern over high costs of production. This, the farmers say, was making it difficult for resource-poor but interested farmers to break into t...

El Ministerio de Agricultura, a través del Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria (INIA), presentó dos nuevas variedades de papa denominadas INIA 319-REAL SICAÍNA e INIA 318-XAUXA, que destacan por sus óptimas cualidades para procesamiento industrial...

Aardappeltelers weten als geen ander dat kwalitatief goed en gezond pootgoed de basis is voor een rendabele aardappelteelt. De praktijk is echter grillig en ervaring leert dat de kwaliteit van het uitgangsmateriaal nogal uiteen loopt. Door verbeterde...

Here at PotatoPro, we are always on the lookout for new developments and in particular new potatoes. Especially if they are somewhat different from what we are used to. The variety Dark Red Chieftain, fits that profile and that's why were pleased to he...