We have more than 90 years of experience within su-gar beet. We were founded back in 1920 by the Da-nish Sugar Factories to improve the sugar beet seed

and the sugar yield. This we have done with passion to the benefit of our customers!

Maribo Seed - your partner in sugar beet…Maribo Seed is fully dedicated and committed to the sugar beet business.

Maribo Seed Headquarters, every year many of our customers take their time to visit our headquarters to see how we produce the seed.

Our MARIBO headquarters located on the island of Lolland in Denmark, in the middle of the area where sugar beets are grown, is dedicated to produce the best possible seed quality and provide good service to our customers.

We have breeders, product and seed technology spe-cialists who work together to develop our full portfolio

of sugar beet varieties to suit specific growing conditi-ons all over the world.

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Maribo Seed – good serviceWe offer the best possible service to our customers through a dedicated network of

subsidiaries, sales offices, distributors and agents in more than 30 countries.

See movie about how we produce the seed

Every year, new breeding work is carried out using thousands of isolation tents and cabins. Here the pa-rent lines are grown – plants that are specially selected by the breeders for having the most desirable charac-teristics for the new generation of sugar beet seed.

The most important parameters we select for are su-gar yield, disease resistance, low soil tare and resistan-ce to bolting.

After 10 – 15 years of testing several thousand crosses in a huge number of trials, only the most promising candidates remain.

We test these in yield trials in several countries and finally the very best are ready for multiplication and production in large scale.

15 years hard work to develop a new sugar beet variety

Breeding work at the headquarters in Denmark.

2 years and a lot of experience to produce the MARIBO sugar beet seed

We multiply the sugar beet seed in Southern Europe where mild climate and good soil give excellent condi-tions for the best seed quality.

The best seed candidates are sown in August and de-veloped into seedlings. In February, these are ready for transplantation into the propagation fields. Here they

bolt and will start to flower in late May and in July the seed plants are mature and ready for harvest.

Every week our experienced field technicians inspect the fields to secure the best quality.

Multiplication

Seed harvest in the Po Valley near Bologna in northern Italy

2 years and a lot of experience to produce the MARIBO sugar beet seed

After harvest in Southern Europe the many tones of seed are transported to our factory in Denmark where our experienced seed specialists are ready to turn the raw seed into the familiar green MARIBO pellets.

We polish, calibrate and pellet the seed using various techniques and methods developed through many ye-ars of experience in seed production.

Two years after the best seed candidates are sown, the seed can then be certified, packed and dispatched to our customers.

Seed processing

Our seed is checked after every individual step in the process. Vigour and ability to germinate is checked during the entire process. In addition, we carry out a series of different quality tests, checking for example: seed maturity, resistance to bolting, moisture content, the pellet size, strength and roundness of the pellet.

Only 10 – 20% of the harvested seed will pass our stringent te-sting procedures and reach the customer.

Quality check – your guarantee

Our team of breeders, mul-tiplication technicians, seed

technologists and production people has all worked hard to de-

velop a specialized seed quality concept.

After several years of research and development we suc-ceeded and our quality concept MARIBO SeedPlus was launched.

The seed is specially selected and the treatment and the entire production process is tailor-made.

The final product is seed of a very high quality, giving the beet grower extra confidence in fast, secure and uniform field emergence and establishment – and extra security for growth.

MARIBO SeedPlus – extra security for growth

Varieties grown under different climate and soil con-ditions must of course have different characteristics. So we offer a full portfolio of MARIBO sugar beet va-rieties, all developed to suit specific climates and local growing conditions.

Beet growers all over the world grow MARIBO varieties with good results

We introduced the first highly competitive sugar beet variety, MARIBO-N, in the end of the 1920s.

In the 1930s, we succeeded in developing the first te-traploid sugar beet, and the first polyploidy sugar beet variety, MARIBO-P, dominated the world market in the 1950s.

We continued the development and in 1969 we intro-duced monogerm varieties and at the same time the seed pellet. This was a big step forward and revolutio-nized the cultivation of sugar beets.

Also, we have been at the forefront of developing Rhi-zomania resistant varieties. Already in the 1960s we

started breeding for resistance to this disease and in the beginning of the 1980s we registered the world’s first resistant variety.

In the early 1990s we started revolutionizing the shape of the beet to reduce the soil tare. By the end of the 1990s this new sugar beet was for the first time of-ficially trialed by the Danish trial authorizes. Today we have a range of sugar beet varieties with reduced soil tare compared to traditional sugar beets.

In 2008 the MARIBO SeedPlus concept, including the advanced multi-layer pellet, was launched.

Our history and milestonesWe have always been pioneers in the sugar beet business.

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