We are sugar beet specialists. We focus on every aspect of sugar beet seed production – from developing new, more resilient varieties to delivering our signature blue seeds.
Discover the various steps of what we do at SESVanderHave, starting with an analysis of the market demands, all the way to the processing of our blue high-quality seeds, ready to be sown in your field.
Market demands
Bringing new and competitive sugar beet varieties to market is a long-term mission. Various factors determine if a new variety is suitable for a specific growing region. This is why market demands are very important to SESVanderHave!
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Market analysis
We start with an extensive market analysis to identify the challenges in each region in terms of climate, soil type, sugar industry needs, and threats such as diseases or insects, etc.
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Breeding
Research begins by implementing the right traits. Growers' needs, as well as the requirements of the sugar industry, must be bred into future genetics. This is where breeding comes in.
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Field trials
SESVanderHave exposes the adaptations of these materials, now called hybrids, to different conditions with field trials across the main sugar beet growing areas over multiple years.
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Seed production
From sowing the stecklings to the harvest of our seeds, discover the story of our sugar beet seed production cycle here!
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Seed processing
After seed harvest, sugar beet seed is far from ready for the grower so the seed has to go through many processes to ensure that it becomes the nice round blue "pellet" for which we are known around the world.
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