Proclaiming that "America’s love affair with meat and potatoes is as strong as ever," Cargill, Wichita, Kan., and H.J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., formed a promotional partnership for Cargill ground beef and Ore-Ida potato products.
Hormel Foods Corp., Austin, Minn., today said it agreed to purchase the Country Crock chilled side dish business from Unilever United States Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Although it's not scheduled for start-up until November 2010, Lamb Weston's new sweet potato operation in Delhi, La., has generated quite a stir in the area, reported the Monroe (La.)
North America's fourth largest potato processor Cavendish Farms last week opened a $17 million bio-gas facility in New Annan, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Responding to shareholder concerns, fast-food giant McDonald's Corp., Oak Brook, Ill., reportedly agreed to to formally survey and promote best practices in pesticide use reduction within with American potato supply chain.
The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle reported that Rochester retailer Wegmans Food Markets opened a $36 million Culinary Innovation Center expansion at its meat shipping and receiving facility in Chili, N.Y.