With McDonald’s recently giving Pacific Northwest (PNW) process growers the green light to grow Clearwater Russet for french fry production, the variety promises to become a popular process cultivar in the coming years.
D’ici 2025, la planète pourrait produire jusqu’à 280 millions de tonnes (Mt) de pommes de terre, soit une hausse de près de 50 Mt par rapport à 2016. L’essentiel sera consommé en frais, mais la part des produits transformés augmentera fortement.
A potato field in Wicklow, New Brunswick, across the border from Mars Hill, being fumigated with chloropicrin in the fall of the 2015, as part of a trial McCain Foods is conducting with its processing potato growers on both sides of the border.
A weaker loonie and promotion of potatoes prepared in more healthy ways are improving prospects for growers and processors
Starch seems to be the key to the potato’s bad reputation in the world of nutritionists.
Australia may be out of the woods as far as potato production goes. After a difficult year in 2016, filled with floods and storms that caused widespread potato shortages, the industry was in need of a break.
US farmers are wondering how local growers and farmers who export their products to Asia will be affected by the decision of the new president Donald Trump to withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The cliché of Asian agriculture is endless fields with rice. But there is literally and figuratively speaking room for the potato. The project ‘Growing out of poverty with the potato’ is trying to make Vietnam self-sufficient in the production of pot
