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十月 24, 2008
McCain Foods Canada honours top potato growers in Manitoba
It was an exciting time for two dedicated area producers on Wednesday evening when they were selected in the top spot for 2008 in the McCain Top 10 Growers for Portage la Prairie competition. Anton Wiebe and Sheldon Falconer, from Anton Wiebe Ltd. of...From the archive

十月 22, 2008
Keystone Potato Products: sustainable potato dehydrates
Keystone Potato Products is committed to sustainability: In 2000, co-op members began looking at building a dehydrated potato processing facility in Pennsylvania – which would be the first dehy plant on the East Coast. A local plant would provide a ma...From the archive

十月 21, 2008
“Western” diet increases heart attack risk globally
The typical Western diet — fried foods, salty snacks and meat — accounts for about 30 percent of heart attack risk across the world, according to a study of dietary patterns in 52 countries reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Associ...From the archive

十月 17, 2008
Profits vary for fresh market, processed potatoes
Potato harvest is winding down in the Columbia Basin this week, with contracted growers reporting decreased profits and fresh market prices more than doubling from last year.Fresh market prices for Russet Norkotahs increased last year from between $4.7...From the archive

十月 16, 2008
Food and Beverage Industry Concerned About Impact of 'Credit Crisis'
In a survey conducted by Clear Seas Research on October 13th, food industry insiders expressed concern over the impact of the current credit crisis -- both on their companies and on the food/beverage industry as a whole. While some believe the credit c...From the archive

十月 16, 2008
Winners International Year of the Potato Photo contest announced
A Peruvian and a Chinese photographer have won the world photography contest “Focus on a global food” launched by FAO and the United Nations as part of International Year of the Potato celebrations in 2008.Photographic essays by Eitan Abramovich, profe...From the archive
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十月 13, 2008
Potatoes: in all shapes, sizes, varieties
Potatoes are just big and brown on the outside and white on the inside, right?Wrong."There are hundreds of varieties of potatoes out there,"said Meredith Myers, public relations manager for the U.S. Potato Board.Most people recognize the basi...From the archive

十月 13, 2008
Snow Puts Idaho Potato Harvest on Hold
The first snow storm of the year hit during Idaho's spud harvest. Now growers have to stop digging the state's famous crop. One grower who explains about the snow and cold and what happens now with the harvest. A wet spring delayed some growers fr...From the archive

十月 12, 2008
El III Congreso Iberoamericano de la Patata concluye con acuerdos de colaboracion para el intercambio de recursos
El III Congreso Iberoamericano concluyó hoy en Vitoria con el acuerdo, por parte de las empresas productoras, de la industria procesadora y de compañías de biotecnología, para intercambiar recursos genéticos y tecnológicos, y establecer colaboraciones...From the archive

十月 10, 2008
North Dakota potato crop off by seven percent in 2007
The final numbers on in for the 2007 potato crop and production in North Dakota declined by seven percent from 2006, according to a report issued on Sept. 25 by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).Final production in the state to...From the archive

十月 08, 2008
Potatoes from Alaska used for New Permafrost brand vodka
Alaska entrepreneur Toby Foster hopes Fields wasn't far from the mark with his theory and that vodka connoisseurs from all over will appreciate a new potato vodka blend he has created called "Permafrost - Alaskan Vodka."A lifelong commercial ...From the archive

十月 07, 2008
Shawn Walters appointed chairman Idaho Potato Commission
The Idaho Potato Commission, Eagle, has appointed Shawn Walters chairman.Walters, a third-generation potato farmer and co-owner of Walters Produce, Newdale, was appointed to serve a one-year term, beginning on Sept. 15, spokeswoman Krista Paglisotti sa...From the archive

十月 04, 2008
Manitoba potato harvest almost done
Potato Harvest is around three quarters complete in Manitoba according to the potato specialist with Manitoba Agriculture. Tom Gonsalves says producers in some areas are already finished while harvest is fully underway in other regions.He says importan...From the archive

十月 02, 2008
Wisconsin Potato Crop 2007 (final report)
Wisconsin potato farmers produced 28.2 million hundredweight of potatoes during the 2007 growing year on 64,000 acres. The state's agriculture department says 94-percent of that crop was sold as either fresh market, processing or seed potatoes. The rem...From the archive

十月 02, 2008
P.E.I. potato growers up for AgriRecovery aid
Potato growers on Prince Edward Island affected by "extreme wet weather"can now share up to $12.4 million in federal/provincial aid through the AgriRecovery program.AgriRecovery, one of the programs under the federal government's Growing Forw...From the archive

九月 30, 2008
USDA Grant helps University of Maine develop New Potato Varieties
A project at the University of Maine to produce new varieties of potatoes that can stand up to disease while giving Maine growers new marketing opportunities recently received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.From the archive

九月 29, 2008
Oregon State Researchers Begin Search For The Perfect Potato
Researchers and farmers across the region begin judging Monday in an annual potato beauty contest. The annual Pacific Northwest Tri-State Potato Tour determines what potatoes to plant in the future. Over the next week, farmers and researchers will tra...From the archive

九月 25, 2008
Simplot and Lamb Weston pay higher price next year for Washington and Idaho Potatoes
J.R. Simplot Co. and ConAgra Foods (Lamb Weston) have both agreed to hefty price increases for 2009 crop spuds, representatives for Potato Growers of Washington and the Southern Idaho Potato Cooperative said.For growers, the new contracts mean an overa...From the archive