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Precaution and prevention are key factors in making sure your farm is properly insured and protected against claims. Mark Epple, a Michigan Farm Bureau Insurance agent, discussed prevention and insurance coverage at the ...

 Tong Engineering is set to introduce a new Cleaner Loader crop transfer machine to its latest range of vegetable handling equipment, to bring farmers and growers an in-field crop cleaning and loading ...

The manufacturer of sensor-based food sorting systems, TOMRA Sorting Food is becoming aware of the food waste issue and works closely with farmers, processors and retailers to achieve the objective of reducing food waste. ...

As a global leader in the production of dehydrated potatoes, the Emsland Group is supporting the market growth for high quality potato flakes. We offer ingredients for trends such as clean label, ...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board has a new executive as a result of its December 16th Board of Directors meeting. Alex Docherty of Elmwood was re-elected for a second year as Chairman ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is to conduct research trials on 15 new varieties of imported Irish potato over the next three months, to determine their suitability for local conditions. Portfolio ...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is pleased to announce a new plan for potato disinfection on Prince Edward Island. This revised program was formed through collaboration with industry members and the ...

With reports again highlighting a concerning lack of knowledge amongst young adults and the origin of the food they eat, educating the next generation remains an important focus. As popular primary school ...

They grow in some of the world’s most inhospitable conditions. Unlike their pampered domesticated relatives in order to survive they’ve needed to adapt on their own to high temperatures, high saline conditions, ...

According to the GAIN report "Poland - Fresh Potatoes and Products. Annual 2015"- published on November 27, 2015 - the 2015 Potato production in Poland dropped 13% compared to last year to ...

The joboto or blind Hen has been a problem that has directly affected the production costs and yields in the vegetable harvest of Zarcero producers for many years, especially in the lower ...

On December 1, 2015, Stanley Trout joins the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) foodservice marketing team as Promotions Director for the Southeast, based in Nashville, TN. Working closely with Don Odiorne, Vice President-Foodservice ...

If you want to try potato chips with ketchup, dill pickle flavor or seasoned with all you can think of – at the same time! – Canada is the perfect place for ...

The Afghan Ministry of Agriculture has funded construction of over 500 potato storages for farmers in Bamyan province. Built at a cost of about 240mn Afghanis (3.6 million USD), the storages have ...

The consortium of potato producers (Conpapa), which associates 300 farmers directly and another 2 thousand in seven cantons of the province, inaugurated days ago its plant for cleaning and sorting tubers in ...

Mercadona's snack supplier, Grupo Ibersnacks, presented yesterday in the Valladolid town of Medina Del Campo its new plant for the production of corn products, Agromaíz, and its development and Improvement Center. The ...

The National Institute of Agricultural Innovation (INIA), of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, launched an effective method to combat the “Andean weevil” that attacks potato crops. This disease in the tuber ...

For the first time, Potato Expo 2016, the largest conference and trade show for the potato industry in North America, will host a food truck chef competition highlighting the broad appeal of ...

Improved shelf life for food products is essential – not only to satisfy the customer, but also to ensure quality and safety.Andre Erasmus has a closer look at how this works in ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Michigan State University (MSU) a $5.8 million cooperative agreement to improve potato production in Bangladesh and Indonesia. The grant supports USAID’s work under Feed the ...

"Do you want fries with that?" is the question that prompts us to think about potatoes. But there is so much more to potatoes as visitors to The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair ...

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is very disappointed by the decision of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries to completely discontinue disinfection services effective December 31st, 2015. The Board was notified ...

The Prince Edward Island government is cutting funding to provincially-funded disinfection service, aimed at controlling potato ring rot. The move is expected to impact one full-time job, which is being transferred within ...

A universe of 126 varieties of potatoes is being planted on a property, owned by the municipality of Puqueldón, with the aim of creating a living museum of this type of tuber, ...

Production of frozen products, especially French fries, needs to be meticulous to end up with the perfect fry. This includes defect and foreign matter removal and naturally, trouble-free freezing if the end-user is to ...