Potato News from Northern America

Utz Quality Foods, LLC, the largest privately-held and family-managed branded salty snack company in the United States, has announced that its subsidiary, Heron Sub, Inc. successfully completed its tender offer for the outstanding shares of common stock of Inventure Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNAK)

TOMRA Sorting Food today announced it has hired food industry veteran, Mark Host, as the company’s Sales Director for the Americas.

Key Technology introduces the highest capacity digital sorter in the food processing industry – the new VERYX® B210.

#getfried Fry Cafe, a quick-serve restaurant franchise that offers a variety of topped French fries and finger foods, is experiencing explosive growth throughout the United States, with locations currently in development throughout Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Santa Clara and Egypt.

Certis USA has entered into an agreement with Corpoica, the Colombian Corporation for Agriculture Research, to license Corpoica’s Spodoptera frugiperda nucleopolyhedrovirus (SfMNPV) strain NPV003 and formulation technology for a biopesticide against the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda).

The Prince Edward Island Potato Board has a new Chairman as a result of its December 4th Board of Directors meeting.

Arby`s is testing a massive sandwich stuffed with curly fries: the Arbynator

Deep River Snacks, a US company manufacturing premium better-for-you snacks based in Connecticut, was acquired by Arca Continental, the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America and parent company of the snack companies Wise Snacks, Bokados and Inalecsa.

After one of the most unique potato harvests in recent memory, Don Flannery, executive director of the Maine Potato Board, said Wednesday that he felt good about all the industry accomplished this year and was optimistic about year ahead.

Beth Bechtel, co-owner of Bear Island Brewing, came up with the idea for the brewery's best-selling Idaho Potato Ale while serving overseas.

High End Grocery Chain Whole Foods Market - now part of Amazon - named the ten most anticipated food trends for 2018

Earlier this month representatives from Potatoes USA met with the School District of LaCrosse, Wisconsin to test school foodservice recipes with the K-12 experts themselves.

The USDA-NIFA has awarded a grant totaling $388,000 to the University of Maine to study potato breeding and improve quality and pest resistance in the eastern United States.

The government of Canada last week announced a $1.8 million investment in a research project at the University of British Columbia that includes the development of beneficial management practices for increasing the efficiency of fertilizer use in potatoes.

The first official USDA data for harvest 2017 show the United States production of fall potatoes is down 2 percent from last year, forecast at 399 million cwt.

S-Scan Farms of Scandia, Alberta was named the McCain 2016 Crop Year Champion Potato Grower for the McCain Coaldale plant

This Thanksgiving, Pringles® is bringing all your holiday favorites to the snacking table with the new and exclusive, limited-edition Pringles Thanksgiving Dinner.

Researchers from all over the world were in Bangor for the '2017 Dickeya and Pectobacterium Summit', organized by the University of Maine Extension.