Hanse Seed Corp. was founded in the year 2.000 in order to introduce the valuable varieties of the potato Breeder Saka Pflanzenzucht GmbH, Germany in the United States and Canada. Plant Variety Protection had just been established and the variety Yukon Gold had become already popular in the households of US and Canadian consumers, when directors of Solana AgrarProdukte, Hamburg, the commercial representative of Saka Pflanzenzucht GmbH decided it was time to pay attention to this vast and interesting market.

It did not take long before a group of farmers found out about the advantages of a variety which not only yields much better but also stores well and can be washed after months of storage maintaining a very high packout. The variety is SATINA, which is in the market since 2002 and every year many farmers switch to the this very well tasting variety. In the past years we have proposed varieties to marketing groups and the acceptance has been very good. Our new varieties not only offer different looks by skin and flesh colors, but also higher resistances to especially Nematodes but also Rhizoctonia S. und Erwinia C. ( blackleg ). 

Every year we present our associates in the US and Canada varieties with special features like a very early vegetation or different textures from waxy ( very firm cooking or salad type ) until a yellow flesh floury, baking potato. Also Cream colored chipstock varieties which can be stored at 4°C ( 40°F ) are in our program and are already being produced in Canada. Saka Pflanzenzucht GmbH has proven during the past 100 years to be a successful Breeder and is committed to work in the future to bring advanced breeding technology to our countries.