INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
April 30, 2001

Board Chairman Says `Cut Back'

Jon Brownell, Hooper, CO, chairman of the National Potato Promotion Board, said one of the best marketing strategies the Board can ever have is for gr
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April 30, 2001

Pac-NW Takes Out 90,000 Acres

According to a spokesman from the Bonneville Power Administration, over 700 irrigators in the Pacific Northwest have signed up for the utility or Bank
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April 30, 2001

Western Counties Get Loans

Even before this year's drought starts taking its toll on the agriculture production areas of the western United States, a toll has already been made
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April 26, 2001

USDA Lists Ban-lift Stipulations

United States Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman announced today relaxed rules for allowing the movement of potatoes from the Prince Edward Island p
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April 25, 2001

Growers Can Utilize Wind Power

Potato growers who have always known it was windy on their lands can harness and use that wind power under a new plan.
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April 25, 2001

Pacific Northwest Shuts Down Plant

The Pacific Northwest Sugar Company will not offer growers contracts this year because of low sugar prices and high natural gas costs.
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April 25, 2001

U.S. Potato Wart Ban To End

The executive director of Agriculture Canada's International Trade Policy Directorate said in Ottawa that the U.S. would end its ban on Prince Edward
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April 24, 2001

PEI Potatoes May Have Been Shipped

Dave Lavway, Government Relations Director of the National Potato Council of Maine, says its possible PEI potatoes have been shipped south of the bord
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April 23, 2001

Summit Over; What About Potatoes?

The Summit of the Americas is over but what came out of the meeting that will help/hinder potato growers.
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April 20, 2001

Canadians Call For Boycott

Prince Edward Island Premier Pat Binns appealed to the citizens of Ontario not to buy U.S. potatoes. Binns, in Toronto while making the appeal, compar
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April 20, 2001

Syngenta Offers Touchdown Site

Potatoes are included in a list of 230 crops that Syngenta's new Touchdown formulation can be used to control weeds.
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April 18, 2001

Idaho Acreage On The Move

In one of the most unusual spring planting periods in Amalgamated's history, the company has no tally of what beets are being planted where.
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April 17, 2001

EU Slaps Duty On India Sugar

India has asked the European Union to restore the country's quota for sugar exports to the region.
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April 17, 2001

Idaho Takes Multi-million-dollar Hit

"This is the worst I've ever seen it. I have other growers calling me and some are almost in tears. They don't know what to do. They can't get operati
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April 16, 2001

Thailand P and G Denies Problem

Proctor and Gamble-Thailand, a subsidiary of Proctor and Gamble, conceded that some ingredients from suppliers might include a mixture of traditional
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April 13, 2001

Jacobson Produce License Revoked

Jacobson Produce Inc., Bronx, NY, has had its PACA license revoked by the USDA for willful, repeated, and flagrant violations.
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April 13, 2001

Mad Canadians May Retaliate

Federal Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief of Canada has put the United States on notice that it will retaliate for the continued closure of the Canad
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April 13, 2001

New Varieties Given Protection

The USDA has issued certificates of protection under the plant variety protection act to two new varieties of potatoes April 9.
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April 12, 2001

April 1 Stocks Up 20 Percent

United States' April 1, 2001, potato stocks totaled a record high 154 million cwt, up 20 percent from last year and 17 percent above two years ago.
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April 12, 2001

BASF Supports Ethanol Production

John Rabby, BASF group vice president-North America has asked all BASF employees with company cars to seek out and patronize only outlets that sell et
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April 12, 2001

Contract Growers On Their Own

Potato Growers of Idaho will not endorse processor contracts that were finalized this week by the three major processing companies-Simplot Foods, McCa
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April 11, 2001

It's Late But Money May Help

It may be "small potatoes," but a $10.3 million diversion program was announced today by the USDA.
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April 10, 2001

BPA Jolts Pacific Northwest

As the reality of the Pacific Northwest drought continues to set in, agencies like the Bonneville Power Administration are making hard and fast plans.
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April 10, 2001

McCain Says Wart Not To Blame

McCain Foods denies that it is delaying contracts to Prince Edward Island, Can., potato growers because of the potato wart crisis.
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April 10, 2001

Wisconsin To Carry WWF Logo

Wisconsin's potatoes will begin carrying the World Wildlife Fund's panda bear logo after growers worked out a unique agreement with the conservation g
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April 06, 2001

Agrawest Receives C$2.5 million

Agrawest, Idaho Pacific's potato granule plant in Prince Edward Island, Can., has received $2.5 million.
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April 06, 2001

PEI Growers Get Another Jolt

Shipments of 80 million pounds of potatoes to McCain's New Brunswick plant may be in doubt and will deal another blow to PEI growers.
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April 05, 2001

E. Idaho Pumpers May Sign Up

Idaho's power conservation efforts took another leap forward and growers have been given another option as the Idaho Public Utilities Commission appro
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April 04, 2001

Bayer Considers Aventis Purchase

Aventis is looking to spin off its CropSciences division to Bayer, which is considering its purchase, according to a recent Bayer news conference. Ave
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April 03, 2001

Gavel Receives Registration

Rohm and Haas' new fungicide Gavel has received registration from the U.S. EPA. It is expected to receive a three-way registration through NAFTA with
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April 03, 2001

Western Buyout Deadline Extended

Clive Rutherford, president of Tate & Lyle North America Sugars, and Rick Dorn, chairman of the board of the Rocky Mountain Sugar Growers Cooperative
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April 02, 2001

Idaho Stocks Up 10 Million Cwt

USDA's March 1 Potato Stocks Report shows that potatoes held in Idaho storage totaled 75,000,000 cwt, 10,000,000 cwt more than on hand March 1, 2000.
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April 02, 2001

Lavway To Get Maine Post

U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine announced that Dave Lavway, the National Potato Council's Government Relations Director, has been recommended to b
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April 02, 2001

Simplot Delays Plant's Construction

J. R. Simplot Co. will delay construction of its new potato processing plant at Portage la Prairie in Canada by a year.
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