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Swedish Potato Business Sold

Sweden-based Lantmännen has announced the sale of its potato processing business. The company released a statement on September 1...

Firm Claims 1 in 4 UK Potato Companies Are Loss Making

A market analysis firm claims one in four companies are now loss making in the UK potato industry. Plimsoll Publishing, the worlds...

New Firm Wins Major Contract

THREE potato growers have struck success after forming a new UK company. Processing Potato Growers Ltd has won a major contract fr...

Fries Machine To Get State Funding

United States: There is light at the end of a twenty-year tunnel for a French fry vending machine project thanks to government sta...

First US-Russia Trade Agreement Signed

The National Potato Council and United States Potato Board (USPB) are pleased to announce the US potato industry can now begin exp...

A Tasty Evolution

February marked the bicentennail birth of Charles Darwin, who said, ‘There is grandeur in this view of life... from so simple a be...

South Africa’s Potato Price Problem

The full benefit of lower potato prices in 2008 was not passed on to the South African consumer, Potatoes SA (PSA) said last week....

CenFRA Gets Funding Boost

Unprecedented UK demand for impartial quality automation audits and consultancy has resulted in CenFRA, Europe's first centre for...

Bickel’s Buys Troyer

Troyer Potato Products Inc., which bills itself as the US's only grower-owned chip maker, has agreed to sell itself to York-based...

The Recession Pinch Effect

As consumers feel the pinch of recession, they are likely to shun pricier fresh produce and head for cheaper fare in supermarket f...

Frito-Lay Plans Indian Expansion

Food and beverage giant Pepsico is planning to increase its sourcing of raw materials from contract farming and venture into new I...

Amflora Delay Upsets BASF

THE delay in the European Union's decision on the marker gene nptII used in BASF's genetic potato Amflora could deprive farmers an...

Best Getting Better

TWELVE years ago four engineers in Belgium got together and jotted their ideas down on paper. Their only option for work space was...

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