INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
November 30, 2001

PGI Selects New Leader

Despite the uncertainty of the 2001-2002 marketing year facing them, Idaho growers agreed to move forward, choosing Klaren Koompin, an American Falls,
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November 30, 2001

Potato Trade Text Available

The first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the world potato trade has just been published by Woodhead Publishing Ltd, of Cambridge, England
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November 27, 2001

EU Bans Egypt's Potatoes

Measures prohibiting the import into the European Union of potatoes from Egypt's 2001-02 crop unless detailed requirements have been met take affect N
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November 27, 2001

Idaho's Bargaining Assoc. to Meet

First official meeting of the new Southern Idaho Potato Cooperative will be Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. at the WestCoast Hotel in Pocatello, ID.

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November 27, 2001

NZ Markets Begin Checking GMOs

New Zealand supermarket chains are not waiting for new GM rules to take effect next year. They have begun checking the GM status of food sold on their
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November 14, 2001

Cavendish Purchases Avico Plant

Cavendish Farms of Prince Edward Island, Can., announces purchase of the Avico plant based in Jamestown, ND. This will boost the company's production
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November 14, 2001

Irrigators May Pay Anyway

>Irrigators who voluntarily agreed not to run pumps last summer to conserve electrical energy may now be included in efforts for Idaho Power Company t
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November 14, 2001

Potato Wart A Very Sore Issue

Prince Edward Island, Can., growers are getting very tired of the continued testing and re-testing of their produce and soils for the potato wart fung
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November 12, 2001

Canada Eyes Food-borne Safety

More than C$33.5 million is being spent in Canada to research and develop potato and tobacco plants capable of producing antibodies that can detect th
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November 12, 2001

NPC Picks New Exec. Director

A new CEO for the National Potato Council has reportedly been chosen but will not be named until Nov. 28, Potato Grower magazine has learned.
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November 09, 2001

C.R. England Goes Paperless

C.R. England, a name widely recognized in the United States potato industry as one of the top refrigerated truck lines hauling produce, will go paperl
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November 09, 2001

U.S. Production Down 14 Percent

United States potato production fell 14 percent from last year with a fall-production forecast placed at 401 million cwt.

This represent

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November 08, 2001

European Production Down

Most Northern Ireland growers are reporting a significant drop in yields at this year's harvest.

Most are seeing fewer and smaller tuber

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November 08, 2001

PEI Growers Get Compensation

Growers on Prince Edward Island will get a compensation package for losses they have incurred due to restrictions ordered by the Canadian Food Inspect
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November 07, 2001

Valent Names New President

Masayo Tada will return to Valent to lead the company. He replaces Mike Borel who has served as president since 1998.

Tada was formerly

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November 02, 2001

Ring Rot Discovered On PEI

Just when growers on Canada's Prince Edward Island thought they had things back together, a finding of bacterial ring rot turned up on an Island farm.
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