Noticias sobre la Cadena de Suministro de Papas de Los Estados Unidos

For the United States, the value of all potatoes sold from the 2006 crop is estimated at $2.98 billion, up 8 percent from the previous year.according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, according to the USDA's National Agricultural...

Harvest time is here and Idaho farmers are busy digging up their fields.  But the hot weather we saw this summer has taken a toll on the local crop. The fields are pretty much dug up, with a few stragglers left behind.  While farms say the quality o...

For the marketing year July 2006 - June 2007 (MY07), the United States Potato Board (USPB) reports total US potato exports were valued at a record $1,000,252,000. On a volume basis, total exports were 1,108,391 metric tons (MT). This represents an inc...

As potato farmers nationwide dig up and truck in this year's crop, they're being held for the first time to guidelines aimed at preventing a food safety scare similar to the deadly E. coli outbreak in spinach last year. Besides watching the weather a...

Dr. Alexander Pavlista of Scottsbluff was elected president of the Potato Association of America in August, during the organization's annual meeting at Idaho Falls, Idaho. The association has more than 700 members, including scientists in university, ...

United Potato Growers of America issued an open letter asking farmers in Idaho to withhold some potato shipments to help shore up potato prices and prevent a shortage later this year. A hot growing season meant farmers dug up fewer potatoes compared...

Jim Tiede operates a farm with his son Alex in the Flat of Pleasant valley and the harvest has just begun. Jim said he didn't expect this year's potato yield to be as good as last year's record crop, but he was encouraged by what they found once they ...

The Idaho Potato Commission announced initiatives for its 2007-08 season that include the release of two new commercials with spokesperson Denise Austin and the launch of a major cable television commercial campaign expected to make over a billion con...

Bill Brewer, executive director of the Oregon Potato Commission, said that potato growers are looking for a return to normal production in 2007. "So far, we're happy with the quality,"Mr. Brewer told The Produce News. "Potato growers are...

Americans love their spuds, consuming 130 pounds per person annually. Now that culinary love affair could grow even more passionate with Agricultural Research Service (ARS) findings that some potato varieties are packed with health-promoting compounds...

Spuds are no longer the top agricultural commodity in Idaho as measured by annual cash receipts. Potatoes yielded that position to the dairy industry several years ago. But spuds are still a huge part of Idaho's agricultural economy, according to a Un...

The potato harvest is slowly getting under way in the Red River Valley, with a few farmers already in the fields.Northern Plains Potato Growers President Duane Maatz (MAWTZ) says expectations are high for farmers whose crops were not drowned out by he...

Ruffles have ridges but they’re not supposed to have stripes. That’s why potato-chip producers like Frito-Lay and the growers who sell taters are fretting over a somewhat mysterious crop disease known as Zebra Chip. It’s wreaking havoc on Texas potat...

More Idaho potatoes will be harvested this fall than ever before.  Projections show there will be two hundred million more pounds this year than last year. But, that extra crop could put some of our farmers in financial trouble. Too many potatoes could...

RD Offutt Company and United II Potato Growers of Idaho, Inc. announce the formation of North American Foods, LLC. The new company, resulting from the contribution of certain assets of the companies unites the industry’s top talent from field to shelf...

An Aug. 13 symposium on enhancing the essential healthfulness of the very essential potato will kick off the 91st annual meeting of the Potato Association of America when it convenes Aug. 12-16 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Symposium speaker Katherine Beals, ...