New potatoes have a delicate flavour and are usually available from the end of winter. They are young potatoes and unlike their fully grown counterparts, they keep their shape once cooked and cut. They are also sweeter because their sugar has not yet converted into starch, and are therefore particularly suited to salads. Choose the…
New Zealand country freedom for Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (CLso) haplotypes B, C, D and E. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has recently notified that New Zealand has country freedom for the organism Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (CLso) and its haplotypes B, C, D and E. CLso is a bacterium transmitted by psyllids causing disease symptoms…
The Best Chip Shop Competition is back after a 4-year hiatus. 51 stores (see list below) have been awarded Highly Commended Chips for producing hot potato chips with 9% fat or less. These stores are currently being mystery shopped for regional awards and the coveted title of Best Chip Shop 2017. As the saying goes… The customer is…
A recently published Ontario Produce Marketing Association research report proposes how improving table potato quality and pack-out can increase profitability. Click here to download the case study.
Dickeya dianthicola has been found in a commercial potato crop north of Perth, Western Australia – read more… Dickeya dianthicola Photo credit: Steve Johnson
There has been discussion in the Potato industry and world-wide media about CRISPR technology and its impact on breeding new Potato varieties. It is important as an industry that we have knowledge of a technological development to be able to fully evaluate its merits. The following is an article (reproduced with permission from Spudman Magazine)…
The Chip Group is delighted to announce that 51 stores across New Zealand will receive Highly Commended Chips awards, and with it the title of Regional Finalists in the Best Chip Shop Competition. The Highly Commended Chips Award recognises stores whose chips (potato of course) have 9% or less fat content! Well done to these operators…
Contact: Tert.ohpxrgg@gnyyrlf.pb.am Phone: 03 528 2800 Talley’s potato products are produced from carefully selected potatoes, grown on the clean green Canterbury Plains. Talley produce chips. wedges, hash browns and a wide range of vegetable and seafood products for the domestic market and export.
Contact: arjmrnynaq.fnyrf@ze-puvcf.pb.am Phone: 09 274 7598 Mr Chips supplies premium potato chips, wedges and potato products to New Zealand from paddock to plate. As a potato processor, Mr Chips is uniquely 100% New Zealand owned by the Balle Bros Group.
Contact: nqnz.unjxrf@zppnva.pb.am Phone: 027 541 6042 McCain Foods NZ Ltd is a leading supplier of potato chips, wedges, hash browns and frozen foods. McCain entered the NZ market in 1985, and produces locally in Timaru and Hastings.
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