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Snack manufacturers with high production outputs to pack and large orders to fulfil are among the most efficiency-orientated of modern...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board has a new executive as a result of its December 16th Board of Directors meeting....

Quality snacks manufacturer and co-packer Keystone Food Products has dramatically expanded production capabilities at its Easton, Pennsylvania site by adding...

tna, leading provider of processing and packaging solutions, has expanded its North American service team with the appointment of Gus...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is to conduct research trials on 15 new varieties of imported Irish potato over...

Key Technology announces the launch of its new website in Spanish for mobile phones to help all its customers throughout...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is pleased to announce a new plan for potato disinfection on Prince Edward Island....

With reports again highlighting a concerning lack of knowledge amongst young adults and the origin of the food they eat,...

They grow in some of the world’s most inhospitable conditions. Unlike their pampered domesticated relatives in order to survive they’ve...

Key Technology announces the launch of its new mobile-friendly website in French to support its many French-speaking customers around the...

The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) declared a state of phytosanitary emergency in January after detecting an increase in the virus...

According to the GAIN report "Poland - Fresh Potatoes and Products. Annual 2015"- published on November 27, 2015 - the...

The potato was domesticated together with sweet potato and other Andean crops, possibly up to 7000 years ago, although the...

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 156.7 points in November2015, down 2.6 points (1.6 percent) from its revised October average....

Last year Dutch Potato Grower and Packer Nedato has put in place a long-term quality plan with the objective to...

CTV's THE MARILYN DENIS SHOW and The Little Potato Company revealed the two finalists in The Little Chef Casting Call...

Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), one of the world’s manufacturers of baking and process systems, has introduced a new stackable chip...

In September, Breeders Trust' shareholder Danespo, through its Breeding company "Vandel Potatoes" located at Give (Denmark), in Appeal has achieved...

One of the challenges of potato breeders is to transfer the ability of some species of wild potatoes to acclimatize...

The joboto or blind Hen has been a problem that has directly affected the production costs and yields in the...

Jorge Zárate Magdaleno, coordinator of the academic unit of the Basque University of Quiroga (Uvaq) in Zamora, announced the first...

On December 1, 2015, Stanley Trout joins the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) foodservice marketing team as Promotions Director for the...

Every month, Japan seems to get a new odd-flavored snack or candy. You might think that’s peculiar, but just know...

In October JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), New York's Hometown Airline™ and TERRA® Real Vegetable Chips, part of The Hain Celestial...

M.A. J.M.M. Polman, Royal Commissioner in Zeeland, officially opened on Friday, September 18, the new, fully automated potato receiving area...

If you want to try potato chips with ketchup, dill pickle flavor or seasoned with all you can think of...

Precision agriculture is already the norm for many arable farms. Modern technological advancements like guidance systems and positioning technology are...

Twenty potato growers from all over the Wisconsin converged on Madison last week for their annual “grill the professors” ritual....

The Afghan Ministry of Agriculture has funded construction of over 500 potato storages for farmers in Bamyan province. Built at...

The "clean eating" trend has inspired a back to basics approach in product development and is an overarching theme in...

Most of Conagra Foods frozen potato facilities have achieved a 95 percent landfill avoidance rate, and are working to find...

The consortium of potato producers (Conpapa), which associates 300 farmers directly and another 2 thousand in seven cantons of the...

Mercadona's snack supplier, Grupo Ibersnacks, presented yesterday in the Valladolid town of Medina Del Campo its new plant for the...

Key Technology introduces the all-new VERYX™ digital sorting platform to the European food processing industry at Fruit Logistica, Hall 7.1B,...

Pringles brings back some holiday favorites while introducing new, on-trend flavored salted-caramel crisps. You're sure to please guests when you...

The National Institute of Agricultural Innovation (INIA), of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, launched an effective method to combat...

With the use of national seed will begin this Thursday the planting of potatoes in the province of Matanzas, a...

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) today announced plans to pursue the separation of the Company into two independent public companies:...

RPE Inc., announces their recent partnership with Discovery Garden’s, LLC. RPE will now act as the exclusive marketing partner for...

Four delicious potato chip flavours, inspired by the Tastes of Canada, took the chip aisle by storm this summer hoping...

The entire potato industry of Great Britain gathered at Harrogate International Centre, North Yorkshire 12 and 13 November for BP2015,...

The winner of this year’s British Potato Industry Award not only has an illustrious and successful career in potatoes but...

For the first time, Potato Expo 2016, the largest conference and trade show for the potato industry in North America,...

Agritechnica features the new generation of the AVR Puma: the Puma 3. This four-row harvester is the 200th Puma to...

In a month and a half, the harvest of 1,950 hectares of potatoes, with national seed, in the municipalities of...

Improved shelf life for food products is essential – not only to satisfy the customer, but also to ensure quality...

The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Michigan State University (MSU) a $5.8 million cooperative agreement to improve potato...