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Beginning in the New Year, McCain Foods (Canada) will celebrate 40 years of sustained operation and investment in Manitoba together with employees, growers and neighbours in the local communities where it operates: ...

The James Hutton Institute's commercial subsidiary, James Hutton Limited, has entered into a five-year agreement with Technico Agri Sciences, a subsidiary of Indian company ITC Limited, for the provision of 16 potato ...

TOMRA, a global leader in sensor-based sorting technology, is committed to its long-term development in China and has further strengthened its set-up in this fast-growing market.Since establishing the first subsidiary in China ...

Food processing and packaging equipment manufacturer tna is pleased to announce that its co-founders Alf and Nadia Taylor have been awarded with the 2018 Ethnic Business Award in the “Medium to Large ...

Many of the 20 contenders for this year’s prestigious global design competition focus on ways to create a more sustainable future. Cutlery made from potato peelings and a robotic cleaner that can ...

Innovation will take center stage at Produce Marketing Association’s (PMA) refreshed 2018 Fresh Summit Convention and Expo when it convenes in less than two weeks (October 18-20) in Orlando, Florida, USA. Attendees ...

The Washington State Potato Commission, headquartered in Moses Lake, Washington, has been pleasantly surprised by the weather and its impact on this year’s potato crop in the state. Chris Voigt, Washington State ...

Frankfort, Clinton County, and Indiana State officials announced PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay division will invest $159 million, providing 50 new jobs in Frankfort to enhance its current operations. The investment in this US city, ...

Tubers were the talk of the town in Cusco, Peru during the week of May 27, when the 10th World Potato Congress (WPC) and the 28th Congress of the Latin American Potato ...

Monday June 4, McDonald’s Corp. opened its new corporate headquarters in Chicago’s vibrant West Loop neighborhood by unveiling the state-of-the-art building which had been covered in a 70-foot tall and 470-foot wide ...

Yesterday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released REPLACE, a step-by-step guide for the elimination of industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the global food supply. Eliminating trans fats is key to protecting health and ...

Last Friday 4 May, the European potato community gathered in Brussels for the Europatat Congress 2018. Under the slogan “Potatoes: a healthy, sustainable and responsible sector”, the annual event focused on the many ...

In Western Australia, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development has wrapped up autumn surveillance for the tomato potato psyllid (TPP), with no detections of a damaging plant bacteria associated with ...

Pepsico's joint venture in Egypt, Chipsy For Food Industries SAE, announced a major agricultural programme to produce all seed potatoes locally.This is a follow up on Chipsy’s long journey of conducting scientific ...

Potato Grower Bill Skinner heads to Massachusetts this weekend to compete in his second Boston Marathon – at the age of 72. “Boston” as it’s known in the running community is an ...

Dutch starch producer Avebe announces that its new Innovation Center in Campus Groningen will start working on practical solutions for better starch or protein applications for specific recipes and clean label solutions, ...

Lamb Weston Holdings celebrated the completed expansion of its operations in Richland, Washington, USA. The USD200m investment announced in 2016 adds a new processing line to the existing facility, increasing the company’s ...

Scarborough Borough Council has formally recommended approval of McCain Foods’ GBP100m expansion plans to renew its Scarborough production facility. The frozen food production company, which has operated at the Eastfield site for ...

Branston is now one of the biggest potato suppliers in the UK. The company, with three well positioned sites, to give easy access to the best potato crops in Lincoln, Ilminster and Perth, supplies fresh and ...

Lamb Weston business will expand operations at its facility in Richland, Washington, with the addition of a new french fry processing line, following an investment of USD200m which is expected to add ...

The rules regarding the flying of drones in the US have been relaxed, paving the way for thousands of businesses to fly legally in the country’s airspace. Existing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules required ...

Growing up in Uruguay — a country with four cows per every person — Virginia Pravia was immersed in the agriculture industry at an early age. During summers and holidays, Pravia watched as her family ...

In October JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), New York's Hometown Airline™ and TERRA® Real Vegetable Chips, part of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., revealed the T5 Farm -- a blue potato farm and ...

Twenty potato growers from all over the Wisconsin converged on Madison last week for their annual “grill the professors” ritual. They came from Eagle River to Spring Green and Coloma to Plover ...

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 ...