Seed Production

Seed Production

The hub of Cygnet PB’s seed potato production is at Blairfield, near Milnathort, 15 miles South of Perth, Scotland. Blairfield offers access to over 10,000 tonnes of state of the art refrigerated storage and a sophisticated grading facility that can also offer tuber counting and smaller size fractioning of orders. Our production, QC, transport, sales and marketing and admin support functions are based at our offices in this location.

Cygnet PB is totally committed to first class seed potato production. We have achieved this through investment in the latest production, grading and storage technology and management experience. A vast wealth of highly specialised scientific and practical knowledge exists within the company and this is directly targeted to meet the requirements of a rapidly changing, dynamic and evolving market place.

All Cygnet PB seed potato production starts with mini-tubers supplied from our sister company Gentech. Starting with the best mini-tubers available has contributed greatly to the high health status of all Cygnet PB seed sold to date.

Suitable sites are selected in the NE of Scotland and Perthshire to multiply our mini-tubers; these are sites well away from traditional potato growing areas where the pressure from soil borne and air borne pests are negligible. We apply the same criteria to our F2 second field generations.

Kirkforthar Potato Company Ltd and selected contract growers produce our varieties under our supervision. We also have agreements with selected merchants to produce and sell our varieties under license.

The 'Cygnet' brand is premium quality seed that utilises limited third field generation and is supplied in much tighter size bands of tuber counted seed. This has allowed farmers to calculate the exact cost of each planted hectare and to plan more efficiently to meet end-user specifications. This method has been adopted by an increasing number of farmers, but we also supply seed by volume and size, as the farmer requires.

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