INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
December 31, 2001

Marketing Season Moving Along

As the calendar is turned to a new year, growers seem content to leave their '01 crop in storage and wait out the holiday selling period.

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December 31, 2001

Western Sugar Makes Layoffs

Western Sugar Company announced Friday it will lay off about 15 percent of its maintenance workers because of a slow sugar season.

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December 17, 2001

McCain Must Listen To Customers

>McCain Foods vice president of marketing, Mark McCauley, told a conference in Quebec that McCain has to listen when three customers who buy 45 percen
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December 17, 2001

PEI Growers Will Solve Trade Issue

Three Canadian Food Inspection Agency officials are expected to be subpoenaed as the Prince Edward Island legislature committee continues to investiga
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December 17, 2001

Processing Falling Behind In NW

Potato processing in Idaho and Malheur County, OR, has fallen below last year for the last three months running.

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December 13, 2001

Good Harvest For Irish Growers

Unseasonable mild weather allowed Irish growers to harvest all this year's crop-something they could not do last year when 100,000 tons were left in t
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December 13, 2001

Simplot Fresh Pack Sold

In a surprising development, Kingston Companies of Idaho Falls, ID, announced its intention to purchase J. R. Simplot Company's lone remaining fresh-p
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December 12, 2001

Idaho Forms Potato Center R and E

With more than a dozen of the world's leading potato experts already on its faculty, the University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
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December 10, 2001

ARS Seeks Sprout-control Partner

USDA's Agricultural Research Service at the Sugarbeet and Potato Research Lab in Fargo, ND, is seeking a business partner to help get a patent license
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December 07, 2001

Lorsban On EPA's Hearing List

Chlorpyrifos, or better known as Lorsban by the sugarbeet industry, is on the EPA's iRED decision list with a hearing deadline set for Jan. 14.
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December 07, 2001

PMANA Warns Of Fry Shortage

Members of the Potato Marketing Association of North America warned processors that unless profitability is restored in the grower community, it will
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December 06, 2001

GMO Testing On Fast Speed

Investigen, an Alameda, CA, company, says it has produced the fastest and most inexpensive DNA-based GMO-testing services now available.

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December 03, 2001

Disease Diagnosis In 60 Minutes?

A Sunnyvale, CA, company working with Agricultural Research Service scientists has developed a portable, DNA-based device that will identify plant-dis
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December 03, 2001

NPC Chooses John Keeling

A veteran Washington, DC, farm industry professional, John Keeling, has been chosen new president and CEO of the National Potato Council.

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