INDUSTRY DIRECTORY
January 31, 2002

Britain Looks At Promotion Body

Britain is eyeing the creation of a single organization to promote its food products in conjunction with a quality guarantee system.
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January 31, 2002

Colorado Missing Winter Storms

All of Colorado's 64 counties, from one side of the state to the other, are going into late winter with no snow and little prospects of winter storms.
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January 31, 2002

NPC Has New Address, Numbers

After just a few weeks into his new job as Executive Director of the National Potato Council, John Keeling is pulling things together for the Council
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January 31, 2002

O3Co., INEEL Work On Ozone Systems

The same technology that helps deliver Idaho poatoes to family kitchens may be an effective tool against terrorism.
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January 31, 2002

PMANA Sets 15 Percent Goal

Leaders of the Potato Marketing Association of North America have set a formidable goal for the annual contracts they will be negotiating.
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January 31, 2002

Simplot Sues Australia's Pacific Dunlop

J.R. Simplot Co., has sued Pacific Dunlop Ltd for A$49 million ($21 million), claiming it got misleading figures when it bought the Australian company
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January 31, 2002

Western Growers Get $50 Million

Growers of the newly formed Rocky Mountain Sugarbeet Growers Cooperative got a big lift today when they learned of a commitment from CIT for a $50 mil
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January 21, 2002

PEI Growers Face Decision Time

High mosaic virus levels caused by last summer's drought have created a big problem for seed growers on Prince Edward Island, Can.
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January 21, 2002

Potato Manufacturers Close Deal

Two of the world's largest potato equipment manufacturers finalized details of a joint-venture agreement this week as Grimme company officials visited
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January 21, 2002

Questions Remain On Potato Wart

Talk about the potato wart problem on Prince Edward Island, Can, is going in all directions.
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January 15, 2002

Ecoterrorists Strike in NZ

Ecoterrorists in New Zealand, going by the name of Wild Greens, raided and destroyed genetically modified potatoes in a Crop and Food Research Institu
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January 15, 2002

Marketing Order Confab Jan. 22

A Marketing Order Conference will be held at the West Coast Hotel in Pocatello, ID, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
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January 15, 2002

Miles Willard Selected For Honor

Miles Willard, Idaho Falls, ID, food processing consultant and inventor, will be honored as "Researcher of the Year," at the annual Potato Association
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January 15, 2002

Syngenta Has New Fungicide Combo

Growers will have a new alternative for insect and pest control by the introduction this spring by Syngenta of its Platinum Ridomil Gold insecticide/f
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January 14, 2002

Ohio Grower Chosen To Lead NPC

Todd Michael, a potato grower from Urbana, OH, was chosen to lead the National Potato Council for the next year during annual meetings held in San Ant
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January 07, 2002

AgraWest Runs Part Time

AgraWest, with a potato dehydration plant on Prince Edward Island, has not closed down as was expected because of the drought.
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January 07, 2002

Wyoming, Colorado Very Dry

Growers in Wyoming and Colorado are fearful winter storms will short them on water this year.
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January 04, 2002

Idaho To Shore Up Marketing

Plans are under way to introduce into the Idaho legislature this year amendments to Idaho's commodity indemnity fund program and to allow "stickering"
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January 03, 2002

English Study Nematicides

Harper Adams University in Shropshire will investigate nematicide break down, leading to reduced levels of protection to plants from invading nematode
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January 03, 2002

Irish Look At New Varieties

New varieties and higher quality are seen as a way to end a 20-year decline in Northern Ireland's seed potato industry.

The decline has

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January 03, 2002

Potatoes Given Three Weeks Fresh

Mantrose-Haeuser Co., Inc., a world leader in edible coatings and the developer of NatureSeal for apples, announced it will extend its technology to p
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