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Potato grower and manufacturer Farm Frites has announced the arrival of its Ultimate Chip. Launched as the company celebrates 25 years in the UK, the Ultimate Chip offers a high-quality accompaniment side ...

Haith has recently delivered the new Haith Tri-Wash process washer for vegetables, to its first customer. Featuring a Direct Drive Brush washer, formatted as a bed transverse brushes, the Tri-Wash system also ...

British retail chain Tesco has announced it will bring potato suppliers Branston and Samsworths together, to reduce the food waste, by using all the production for mashed and prepared meals. Mark Little, ...

Canadian consumers who avoid potatoes to reduce their carb intake can now try a new Ontario-grown variety that is touted to have a lower glycemic response, meaning it doesn’t cause the rapid ...

The Oregon UAS FutureFarm will host the first Ag Drone Rodeo in Pendleton, Oregon on August 18 -19, where leading technological companies will demonstrate unmanned aircraft systems, featuring advanced crop sensors and ...

McCain Foods (Canada) announced a major investment of USD65m in its Florenceville-Bristol French fry plant that will expand capability and create 40 to 50 new jobs. The company is adding a new ...

The United Fresh Produce Association will present its 2016 FreshTech Achievement Award to David Offerdahl, director of ag engineering, at Taylor Farms for his outstanding technical achievements to advance the fresh produce industry. David Offerdahl, ...

May was a very cool, cloudy and wet month, which is having all kinds of repercussions now and into the summer for field crops. Gordon Johnson and Kate Everts talked about some of ...

Registration is now open for the July 12Western Ohio Precision Agriculture Day hosted by Ohio State University Extension. Focusing on precision placement opportunities, the daylong workshop is a chance for growers to learn more about ...

Mechanized agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize work, greatly increasing productivity. In modern times, powered machinery has replaced many jobs formerly carried out by manual labor, or by ...

Farmers and ranchers want to control the information their equipment collects every time it passes through a field, a survey released by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) shows. Farmers also believe that creating a ...

 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 ...

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 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 ...

Last year Dutch Potato Grower and Packer Nedato has put in place a long-term quality plan with the objective to further improve the quality of the delivered product. Nedato now reports that ...

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 ...

M.A. J.M.M. Polman, Royal Commissioner in Zeeland, officially opened on Friday, September 18, the new, fully automated potato receiving area at Lamb Weston/Meijer, producer of frozen potato products and dehydrated potato flakes. ...

Precision agriculture is already the norm for many arable farms. Modern technological advancements like guidance systems and positioning technology are helping us get the most out of the land. New methods for ...

The entire potato industry of Great Britain gathered at Harrogate International Centre, North Yorkshire 12 and 13 November for BP2015, the key industry event of the year. AHDB Potatoes’ Strategy Director Rob ...

The winner of this year’s British Potato Industry Award not only has an illustrious and successful career in potatoes but has worked tirelessly on the industry’s behalf over many years. Nick Vermont ...

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 ...

New Zealand potato growers could gain a new marketing edge thanks to a line of potatoes developed by University of Canterbury researchers. UC Biotechnologists Dr David Leung and Dr Seyedardalan (Ardi) Ashrafzadeh ...

Eliane™ Bind 12 is a potato starch with unique properties that allows food manufacturers to create high quality and crispy coatings for fish and meat.  With Eliane™ Bind 12 a significant reduction ...