Canada/USA
HZPC Americas brings the history, research and development, agronomic expertise and premium variety selection to North America. HZPC Americas has been providing superior varieties and seed to customers for over 20 years. Our focus on every element of the potato value chain ensures we continue to bring you leading edge varieties with unparalleled support. With growing partners across Canada and the United States, HZPC Americas and our partners are positioned to help you better understand your market and grow for success for many years to come.
Partners
Without you, no HZPC
We have been growing partners in virtually every growing region across Canada and the United States. HZPC Americas carefully selects some of the best seed producers in both countries to deliver a stable seed supply. This broad reach helps us to deliver local service with international impact.
Varieties
World class seed potatoes
Our breeding experts provide the best varieties of potato seed to your operation. Our focus on delivering value to every step of the potato value chain ensures our variety portfolio meets the needs of today’s markets and beyond.
Research
Located in the Netherlands, close to the North Sea, is the HZPC potato breeding station. There, we screen hundreds of thousands of potential potato varieties in a continuing search for truly superior potato variety candidates. Part of the breeding program is dedicated to breed varieties especially for the North American markets.
Yield is a significant factor in this search but is only one of numerous characteristics that must be present before a potential candidate will even be considered. Is it resistant to diseases? Can it be grown in a number of environments? How does it taste? These are only a few of the questions that must be asked and answered during a ten year selection process.
Once a potato variety candidate has been selected for North America, it has to be shipped in-vitro from Holland to the official quarantine laboratory for screening before HZPC Americas Corporation can enter it in our own tissue culture lab, located at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Field trials and demonstration sites are needed as soon as possible before it can be presented to potential clients.
Seed production
Once a new HZPC variety has been selected for introduction, high quality seed potato production is needed.
HZPC varieties are grown by the best American and Canadian seed potato producers. The potatoes are grown on their own account and the crop is sold by HZPC Americas Corporation or by affiliate marketing agents. HZPC seed potato producers have excellent reputations and grow seed potatoes in select isolated areas in soils ideal for healthy potato production.