High Protein Soybean Varieties from Northland Seed & Grain Approved for Hungarian, EU Seed Catalogs
Northland Seed & Grain Corporation, based in Minnesota, USA is proud to announce that Northland's high protein soybean seed varieties Royalpro®, Minnpro®, Altapro® and Primapro® are now approved for registration in the Hungarian and EU seed catalogs. Northland's collaboration with Hungarian agronomist Gabor Toth, Sales and Production Manager at Nemzedek Bt., resulted in the successful completion of the registration and inscription process with final acceptance of these four varieties. Several of Northland's high protein soybean seed varieties were approved earlier this year for registration in the Italian and EU seed catalogs.
A total of six varieties will now be commercially available for production and use in the food and feed industry in the EU. Northland's Non-GMO and Organic specialty soybean varieties were developed specifically for characteristics that are preferred by food manufacturers of soymilk, tofu, soy sauce, soy proteins and other soy food applications. These seed varieties have been popular for food production use in the USA and Japan. After completing successful trial productions in Italy, Hungary and France, Northland now plans to expand production of these food-use varieties in Europe and continue to develop new, high protein, specialty soybean seeds with the use of traditional seed breeding methods. Northland never uses genetic modification in their seed development program.
Northland Seed & Grain and its sister company, Northland Organic Foods, develop, produce and market both Certified Organic and Conventional Non-GMO seeds, raw materials such as sunflower, soybeans, corn and wheat, and food and feed ingredients such as oils, flours and meals, soy lecithin and soy beverage powders. Both companies have been reliable suppliers to the global food, beverage, baking and nutraceutical industry for many years. Mr. Gabor Toth holds a degree in Agronomy as well as graduate degrees in Seed Processing/ Marketing and International Business. He has extensive experience in the seed industry, having worked for an official seed testing company and served as seed production manager and quality assurance manager of major seed production companies in Hungary. He is now sales and production manager of his own company, Nemzedek Bt.