potato processing

According to NASS, potato stocks in the Northwest topped out at 171.4 million cwt earlier this month.  As of December 1st, potato stocks in Washington totaled 58.5 million cwt.  In Oregon, potato stocks totaled 17.9 million cwt, and Idaho came in at 95 million.  As far ...

Lamb Weston announced last week that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Ready Meals , a frozen potato processor in Australia.   Terms were not disclosed.   Ready Meals sells frozen potato products under the Harvest Choice brand and operates frozen potato processing and storage facilities in Hallam, Victoria.   “...

Only seven months old, the expanded Lamb-Weston Potato Processing facility is already making it’s impact known across the Inland Northwest and the world.  Lamb-Weston’s Mark Schuster was Plan Manager for the Richland Plant, and he says the the expanded facility can now process roughly 300 million pounds of potato products a year, and has added about 100 jobs to the local economy.  He noted that ..