DLF Beet Seed has intensified its development of new robust and sustainable sugar beet varieties

Climate change and reduced use of plant protection products will increase demand for more resistant and drought-tolerant sugar beet varieties in the future.

For the coming season, DLF already has the first varieties with high tolerance to virus yellows ready for delivery.

DLF is expecting to register two or three varieties in Europe in 2023 and more are on their way.

Over the past year, the volume of nematodes in the fields has increased in more and more countries, and DLF has launched various new nematode-tolerant varieties in Europe.

In the Netherlands, for example, DLF launched the variety Laser, with good nematode tolerance and great robustness in terms of plant diseases.

The same applies in Spain, where customers welcomed Flixter for fields both with and without nematodes.

In France, DLF has launched Galion, characterised by its good Cercospora and nematode tolerance.

In the Czech Republic, DLF successfully launched the nematode-tolerant Vitus, and in the Nordic countries, the nematode-tolerant Nakskov is now available.