Hilleshog is the global sugar beet brand of Syngenta. Sugar beet seed is our business, and the complete satisfaction of our customers is our aim.
This is the website of Hilleshog Sugar Beet in the UK, a source of information, news and events for Britain's sugar beet growers.

Hilleshog remains totally committed to sugar beet in the U.K. and has a great deal to offer, including this year the three top varieties for Adjusted Tonnes on the 2008 Recommended List - TRINITA, ALOTA and OPTA. We believe that our varieties should give you more than just the good yields, good looks and good results that you have come to expect from us.

Hilleshog celebrated the centenary of its founding in 2007 and Hilleshog sugar beet seed was first supplied to UK growers in 1926. Since that time we have built a reputation as one of the foremost seed suppliers in the country. In the last 20 years we have supplied over 1.75 million units of sugar beet seed to the U.K. industry and the names of Hilleshog varieties read like a Hall of Fame for Sugar Beet.

With the broad knowledge base and expertise of Syngenta behind it, Hilleshog is uniquely placed to serve UK beet growers as never before and our aim remains the same - to provide sugar beet growers and the sugar industry with products and information of the highest quality and a service to match.

HILLESHOG VARIETIES FOR 2008 : To 70 Tonnes and beyond...
TRINITA, ALOTA, OPTA, BUXOM & BANDIT

The target of achieving 70 tonnes per hectare will require each grower to look at every opportunity to maximise beet yields and reduce production costs in order to sustain the profitability of their beet growing.

One essential ingredient is the choice of strong, high-yielding and cost-effective varieties.Although a very tough call, we believe the 70 tonne initiative to be a practicable target and we aim to provide you with the best tools to get the job done.

The Hilleshog portfolio is made up of strong, reliable, high-performance varieties to meet any conventional requirement - from the highest sugar content to high-performance heavyweights, from the earliest drilling to the latest lifting, and all come with good establishment, high returns and the genetic potential to deliver and exceed the target yield of 70 tonnes.

All our varieties will be competitively priced. We have looked really hard at the price of our seed for the coming year and, in an attempt to answer the wishes of growers and further to negotiation with the NFU and British Sugar, have agreed some very competitive pricing for our varieties, making them as attractive as possible in terms of performance per pound spent on seed. You will find that Hilleshog varieties offer the best performance and value for money in each of the price groups in which we are present.

We are especially excited about our two new varieties for 2008 TRINITA and ALOTA. They have come onto the new Recommended List, released on April 27th 2007, as 1st and 2nd for Adjusted Tonnes and they are the only varieties to have averaged over 95 Adjusted Tonnes per hectare in the last three years of trials. They join OPTA which was successfully launched last year as the sweetest variety available. In addition to high yields, all three varieties benefit from excellent establishment, very low bolting and the new Hilleshog low tare root shape.<\p>

BUXOM, the top-selling new variety for 2006, continues to offer excellent, well-rounded, high yield performance ahead of the market leader, and is particularly well suited to later sowings, later lifting and high fertility soils.

BANDIT, another excellent heavyweight variety, also comes at a best value price. It has the new tow-tare root shape, very large tops and is noted for being particularly clean and easy to harvest. BANDIT will be a very good choice for those wishing to move on from some of the older and outclassed varieties, such as Roberta, into higher performance material without any extra cost.

Good stocks of excellent quality seed are available for all our varieties

We are pleased to report that all the Hilleshog varieties look very well in the field and in official trials this year and we hope that you will agree that Hilleshog has some hard working varieties for the year ahead.

Please click on the Varieties tag to see the details of the varieties.

Celebrating 100 years of breeding.

In 1907, a group of Swedish sugar beet factories set up a breeding organisation to provide varieties adapted to their local conditions. The new company took its name - HILLESHÖG - from the village that became their headquarters. In 100 years of continuous development, the company has grown to be one of the world leaders in sugar beet breeding and seed production. Over the years, Hilleshog has been at the forefront of many of the key developments in the crop

The centenary is commemorated in a specially produced book entitled 'The first 100 years'. It traces the history of Hilleshog across the world and looks forward to new challenges in the future of sugar beet breeding.

A limited number of copies of the book are available to those that would like them. Please contact us by post or email if you would like us to send you a copy.