Quality and storage
In good hands.
Well treated is half the battle!
The quality of seed potatoes is not only determined by genetics. Storage, preparation and seamless quality control are key factors that determine how vital, healthy and ready for planting the planting stock ultimately arrives at the farms.
Norika relies on precise control, consistent hygiene and complete traceability.
What quality means
Pure variety,
healthy and vital
Three closely linked levels are crucial for the best yields: genetic, health and physiological quality.
Genetic quality ensures that a variety exhibits exactly the characteristics for which it was bred – from yield and tuber shape to starch content and suitability for processing.
Health quality includes freedom from viruses, bacteria and fungal diseases. It is ensured through intensive field inspections, laboratory tests and state approval procedures.
The physiological quality describes the internal condition of the tubers: stable dormancy, vital shoots and the right conditioning for uniform emergence.
Optimal storage
A lot of work for the perfect rest
The performance of seed potatoes depends heavily on how well they are stored. With precise temperature control, we prevent both pre-sprouting and cold stress, while controlled humidity and continuous ventilation prevent condensation and storage rot.
At the same time, dormancy management takes place: the tubers are managed in such a way that they are physiologically stable but ready to start on the delivery date. Only then are the batches sorted and calibrated. Each tuber is assessed in terms of size and physiological condition; only perfect material remains in the stock.
Depending on the requirements, the seed potatoes are delivered cleaned or unwashed. Export markets often have their own specifications. In any case, each batch remains fully traceable – all the way back to the original cutting.
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Why quality & storage are so important
Optimum planting material leads to uniform emergence, vigorous crops and reliable yields. Errors in storage or physiological condition, on the other hand, have a direct impact on tuber set, growth behavior and susceptibility to disease.
That is why Norika relies on a closed quality and storage system that offers producers maximum safety – from the grower to the field.
Norika station Kröpelin
The potato warehouse in Kröpelin, which was founded in 1972, has been successively developed and reached a storage capacity of 15,000 tons with the completion of the new warehouse in 2009. Potatoes are multiplied, stored and prepared for dispatch on an area of 400 hectares in five farms or parts of farms connected to the warehouse.
Modern storage facilities, refrigeration and efficient potato-protecting processing plants are the basis for timely delivery and quality-oriented supply to customers.
The company is managed by Mr. Wolfgang Langehenke and the warehouse is supervised by Ms. Evelyn Meyer. The NKL team will be happy to answer any questions you may have using the contact details below.
Farmyard customers for small packages, both for seed and table potatoes, can also purchase their potatoes directly from the warehouse. Keep an eye out for our cellaring campaigns – we look forward to your visit:
Norika-Station Kröpelin
Wismarsche Straße 51
18236 Kröpelin
Phone: +49 38292 280
Mobile: 0170 – 85 52 148
Opening hours:
Monday-Friday:
07:00 – 16:00
Norika station Sanitz
The warehouse in Sanitz was built in 1968 in several construction phases with a total storage capacity of approx. 12,000 tons.
One of the special features of the storehouse is the 3 t storehouse boxes, which are filled with potatoes directly from the harvester in the field. These enable flexible storage of seed potatoes in different qualities and stages. Optimal storage in terms of ventilation due to the favorable dimensions of the pallet is a prerequisite for gentle processing and sorting of even smaller batches.
Efficient loading technology, gentle processing technology and large crate storage ensure that our customers are supplied on time and in the right quality.
Our warehouse manager Mr. Karsten Michelsen, the operations manager Mr. Frank Meier and the PSL team will be happy to answer your questions using the contact details below.
Farmyard customers for small packages, both for seed and table potatoes, can also purchase their potatoes directly from the warehouse. We look forward to your visit.
Norika-Station Sanitz
Niekrenzer Damm 1
18190 Sanitz
Phone: +49 38209 231
Mobile: 0170 – 85 52 112 (Mr. Michelsen)
Mobile: 0170 – 85 52 100 (Mr. Meier)
Opening hours:
Monday-Friday:
07:00 – 16:00
Norika station Lindenhof
Potatoes have been bred at the Lindenhof Norika conservation breeding station near Demmin since 1946. From the very beginning, Lindenhof has been very successful in breeding new potatoes and maintaining existing ones. In total, the Lindenhof station has produced 26 potato varieties.
In the meantime, the focus of the site is no longer on new breeding, but solely on the maintenance breeding of existing varieties. This has the task of feeding pure, healthy seed potatoes with the typical varietal and value-determining characteristics of already approved potato varieties into the propagation system every year.
Farm-gate sales are also extremely popular in the region. Restaurants and private households are very happy to take advantage of the range of floury and predominantly waxy table potatoes. In spring, allotment gardeners also have the opportunity to purchase the right variety for their own cultivation from a wide range of seed potatoes.
The Lindenhof team, headed by Mr. Oliver Steinbach, will be happy to provide you with further information and answer any questions you may have:
Norika-Station Lindenhof
Lindenhof 45
17111 Borrentin
Phone: +49 39994-10210
Mobile: 0170 – 21 58 061
Opening hours farm-gate sales:
Monday-Friday:
07:00 – 09:00
09:30 – 12:00
12:30 – 15:45
Norika station Lanckensburg
The Lanckensburg Norika breeding station, located on the island of Rügen near Altenkirchen on the Wittow peninsula, is the nursery of our seedling production. This is where healthy seedling precursors and elite seedlings for multi-stage propagation are produced.
The Lanckensburg site was selected due to its isolated geographical location. In addition to the harsh healthy climate, the production areas here are surrounded on three sides by the Baltic Sea, so that the contamination of young potatoes with aphid-borne viruses can be minimized.
Mr. Riccardo Bär and his team in Lanckensburg will be happy to provide you with further information:
Norika-Station Lanckensburg
Lanckensburg 11
18556 Altenkirchen
Phone: +49 38391-434665
Mobile: 0170 – 76 71 192
Opening hours:
Monday-Friday:
07:00 – 16:00
Norika station Carolinensiel
The warehouse and agricultural business Westerdeich GbR are located in the North Sea resort of Carolinensiel in the district of Wittmund in Lower Saxony. A few centuries ago, the area where Carolinensiel is located today was still an outcrop of the North Sea. With the systematic reclamation of land through diking, new, fertile marshland was wrested from the North Sea piece by piece.
The silt-rich, heavy clay soil is particularly suitable for the cultivation of inert variety types to achieve higher vigor.
Our team in Lower Saxony, headed by Mr. Jan Hogrefe, will be happy to provide you with further information:
Norika-Station Carolinensiel
Friedrichsgroden 5
26409 Wittmund
Phone: +49 4464-942879
Mobile: 0175 – 18 52 525
Warehouse: PSL GmbH Station Carolinensiel
Bahnhofstraße 84
26409 Carolinensiel (Wittmund)
Phone: +49 4464-466
Opening hours:
Monday-Friday:
07:00 – 16:00
Consulting and sales
We will help you find the right variety!
Norika stands for quality – and for reliable partnership. That is why we provide growers, processors and retailers with comprehensive support in cultivation, harvesting, storage and processing. Our experience in breeding and research ensures varieties that are convincing in every respect – whatever the conditions.
Together we will find the right variety for your success!
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