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PROCESSING HEADLINES
Sackett Ranch, a potato producer in Michigan, has reduced manpower reliance and improved product quality after adopting Tomra sorting equipment. Th…
BUSINESS INSIGHTS
Albert Bartlett and the Jersey Royal Company have joined to form the Island’s largest exporter of Jersey Royals. To protect the interests of indepe…
POTATO TRENDS
The first step toward manufacturing proteins in common plant crops is the SuperAA platform, which was recently announced by PoLoPo, a pioneer in mo…
With four sets of chromosomes, tetraploid potatoes make up the majority of potatoes farmed worldwide. This increases the amount of genes that need …
Two years ahead of schedule, PepsiCo recently said that it has achieved its global objective for 2025, which was to enhance operational water-use e…
PB SPECIAL FEATURES
The potato processing business, one that has grown dramatically over the last 20 years, is a water-hungry industry, requiring an average of 17 lite…
In an increasingly competitive market, potato storage owners and processors look for ways to cut operating costs without sacrificing the output lev…
AGRO UPDATES
Across Europe, planting efforts for the early potato crop increased last week, but more rain is expected. “Planting of the early processing crop …
Vultus AB and AR Tarim, a subsidiary of Agrico and Europlant, have launched a new service for early disease identification in potato crops. The ser…
STORAGE SPECIAL
With its recent partnership with Dematic to integrate automation as a core feature of its enlarged manufacturing and logistics facilities in Rojana…
Along with working with growers and academic institutions, Munevver Dogramaci, a research plant physiologist and lead scientist of the Potato Resea…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded Oregon State University researchers USD2m to find better methods of keeping stored potatoes f…
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SunChips is gaining attention as the much anticipated solar eclipse approaches. The snack brand is celebrating the inspiration for its name, the Su…
For the summer of 2024, Burts will be adding a brand-new, limited-edition flavor of hand-cooked, spicy barbecue potato chips to its lineup. The new…
Since its launch in 2017, Uglies Kettle Chips has rescued approximately 11,300 tons (25m pounds) of ‘ugly potatoes,’ which have been used to cr…