Potato News

Inflation and other rising costs have consumers looking to cut expenses, and eating more dinners at home is one way they do it. Out-of-necessity dinners at home peaked during the pandemic but have since normalized.

Construction is underway on our state-of-the-art potato packaging facility and new Canadian head office. The Little Potato Company and Leduc County representatives celebrated the start of construction.

Quienes no la conocen, preguntan para conocerla, quienes la han consumido dicen que, “es muy rica y de buen sabor”, son las papas llamadas nativas o artesanales, que hace varios años se cultivabas a grandes cantidades en Boyacá, Cundinamarca y Nariño.

The brain controls our body’s lysophospholipids, which in turn control a programme that activates nutritional intake / specific inhibitors of lipid synthesis could serve as new obesity therapies / publication in 'Nature Metabolism'

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 154.2 points in June 2022, down 3.7 points (2.3 percent) from May, marking the third consecutive monthly decline, though still 29.0 points (23.1 percent) above its value a year ago.

Americold Realty Trust (NYSE: COLD), a global leader in temperature-controlled warehouses and logistics for the food industry, announced the grand opening of its newest facility in Dunkirk, NY.

La producción de papa durante abril registró un aumento de 5.9 porciento en comparación del mismo mes del 2021, cifra respaldada por las áreas cosechadas debido a una mayor humedad en el suelo que favoreció el crecimiento del tubérculo.

Los papicultores esperan muchas cosas del nuevo Gobierno pues en campaña, el entonces candidato Petro dijo que se dejaba de lado la política extractivista por una política agraria, por eso la expectativa en este sector es bastante grande y esperan en los próximos meses se empiecen a ver esos cambios para el campo.

No creemos que haya problemas de abastecimiento ni variaciones al alza del precio, afirmó Alfonso Grela, asesor privado en la gestión del sector productivo de papa.

McCain Foods Limited has acquired the predictive crop intelligence portfolio from Resson, an analytics technology firm enhancing farming efficiency. Resson's vision-intelligence-based technologies leverage field.

The latest U.S. Trend Index from snack leader Frito-Lay polled consumers on their snacking preferences and priorities and found that the 90 percent of consumers who snack daily care – and care deeply – about the companies.

The price paid to HZPC Holland’s seed potato growers for the 2021 harvest is EUR 33,70 (about USD 35) per 100 kilo. This is slightly above the forecast price of EUR 33,10 (about USD 34.7) published last spring.

Mid-May, many potato growers in North-western Europe were hoping for an end of season with prices around EUR 30/100 kg, but rain brought a stop to that hope…

El consejero de Agricultura, Ganadería y Desarrollo Rural, Gerardo Dueñas, se ha reunido con los representantes de la Organización Interprofesional de la Patata de Castilla y León (Oipacyl). La finalidad es conocer de primera mano la realidad de esta asociación, única en España, y evaluar sus necesidades y futuros retos.

Commercialisation of potato, a common food crop largely consumed in East Africa, will receive a boost following the launching of a value-chain platform dedicated to it.

Supplies of Idaho potatoes continue to be extremely tight and will likely gap before fresh crop potatoes come on later this summer.

Según se recoge en una reciente publicación de la Interprofesional de la Patata de Francia, la mejora de rendimientos de la patata, en las últimas cuatro décadas, ha sido muy inferior al del resto de cultico.

EnWave Corporation announced that it has received a signed purchase agreement from Fungaria Snack Ltd. ("Fungaria") for a 10kW Radiant Energy Vacuum ("REV™") dehydration machine to be located at their production facility in Budapest, Hungary.