Carrot Country

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Varieties

Harris Moran
Seed Company
P.O. Box 4938
Modesto, CA 95357
Phone: (209) 579-7333
Fax: (209) 527-8674
Mobile: (209) 988-0806
d.stephens@harrismoran.com
www.harrismoran.com

Six Shooter: Six Shooter is an early maturing, dark orange carrot with excellent tip fill and good, mild flavor. It features: improved color and length; excellent uniformity; the ability to make size; and good field holding ability. It also sports a smooth shoulder with good top attachment. Throw in intermediate resistance to bolt, and you have a true performer adaptable to all Cello/Jumbo growing areas.

Dyna Bites (HMX 0329): Introducing Harris Moran’s new Imperator carrot for the cut & peel and slicer markets. Dyna Bites is a mid-season, medium dark orange carrot with excellent flavor and texture quality. The 10-12 inch tube-shaped carrot features uniform interiors (coreless). Dyna Bites has wide adaptability to many products.

Nunhems USA
1200 Anderson Corner Rd
Parma ID, 83660
1-800-733-9505
www.nunhemsusa.com

SugarSnax 54

Nunhems USA offers a full product line for any grower’s cello-pack, fresh, cut-and-peel and/or processing needs. The current lineup is full of dependable and proven hybrids such as SugarSnax 54, PrimeCut 59, TopCut 93, Choctaw, Apache, Sun 255, Eagle and Navajo. These items combine to provide North American carrot growers an arsenal to remain competitive for many years to come.

Maverick is a cello pack and jumbo imperator hybrid that provides excellent quality, root color, uniformity, yield and tops. Maverick is showing extraordinary adaptability with strong performances in almost all production locations throughout North America. Its ability to make high quality, good yielding, durable roots makes Maverick an excellent addition to the current cello product line.

Dillon, another cello and jumbo type hybrid, was also made commercially available in 2004. Dillon has excellent quality traits producing roots with good flavor, excellent color and large shoulder diameter.

TenderSnax is a carrot hybrid most suited for growers who are targeting local markets, packet trade and gourmet customers. TenderSnax is very uniform with excellent color resulting in attractive presentation, and possesses the highest quality eating traits. Roots are consistently sweet and crisp, combining to make an enjoyable flavor not matched in the market place. The root appearance is extremely smooth and slightly tapered with fully blunted tips. Length will vary on plant population but under normal stands will be about 6-7 inches long
(15-18 cm).

In addition to these varieties, Nunhems USA offers a full line of nantes hybrids developed by its breeding program in Europe. In bunching nantes, the assortment is the industry standard for Europe and includes Evora, Fortuna, Finora and Damco. Fresh market nantes varieties include Laguna, Vitana, Coltan and Sirkana. These varieties have performed well throughout North America in commercial trials.

Sakata Seed
America Inc.
18095 Serene Dr.
Morgan Hill, CA 95038-0880
phone (408) 778-7758
fax (408) 778-7768
www.sakata.com

Sakata’s new Trinity carrot is an excellent peeler that has shown good results in year-round production. Trinity is an excellent yielder with a good crown attachment.

It is 10 - 12 inches in length and 1/2 - 3/4 inch diameter making this perfect for the cut and peel market. Trinity has good color, texture and flavor. To top it all off, Trinity carrot outperformed all other carrot varieties in a recent study conducted by the California Fresh Carrot Advisory Board to determine factors that control or reduce sensitivity to root cracking.

Arrowhead is a medium orange tapered Imperator variety has excellent taste and texture with good plant vigor. Arrowhead is in the Mid-Maturity class and is 7-8 inches long and 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 inches in diameter with vigorous top growth. If you are looking for a Jumbo/Cello type carrot, Arrowhead is an excellent choice.

Seminis
2700 Camino del Sol
Oxnard, CA 93030
phone: (toll-free) 1-866-334-1056
fax: (805) 918-2488
www.seminis.com

Prodigy: a Flakkee-type suitable for use as either a dicer, sticks or as a jumbo fresh market carrot. It has a large crown with a
strong top attachment, good length and a blunt tip. Prodigy has a high yield potential and good, uniform internal color with excellent flavor.

Tastypeel: a cut-and-peel variety with long (14-inch), cylindrical roots. It has a pleasant texture and a sweet, light flavor. The root is strong with an almost imperceptible core and a strong top and attachment. Its smooth exterior requires less peeling.

Trigger: a cello/jumbo type for all fresh markets. Main season maturity and excellent yields of high quality carrots. The roots are 9- to 10-inches long, tapered to a blunt tip. They have a strong top and excellent color.

Recoleta: a Berlicum-type dicer with good length—9 to 10 inches—that maintains better than a 2-inch shoulder. Its added length increases the yield. Recoleta has a slightly tapered shape with a strong, blunt tip. Tops are strong and the color is dark and uniform for good dicing.
Cellobunch: a cello/jumbo variety with early maturity and a medium-long root that is very cylindrical with a blunt tip. Cellobunch bulks up early for a high yield potential.

Vilmorin
2551 N. Dragoon St.
Tucson, AZ 85745
520-884-0011
vilmoinc@aol.com
www.vilmorin.com

Bolero F1: Bolero has become the leading variety in the slicer markets thanks to its long cylindrical shape and high-yield potential. Bolero is a mid-late Nantes carrot with exceptionally strong foliage. It is consistently ranked as the most tolerant carrot variety against Alternaria, and also demonstrates good tolerance to Powdery Mildew, Xanthamonas, and Aster Yellows. Bolero’s strong genetic vigor is a benefit from its quick emergence to harvest, making it a well adapted variety to many growing conditions, even the most stressful. Bolero is also well adapted for the fresh market and keeps well in cold storage.

Siroco F1: A new variety from Vilmorin targeted at the slicer market, Siroco is a mid-late Nantes carrot with a long, slightly tapered cylindrical shape and high-yield potential. Like Bolero, it has strong tolerance to Alternaria, and has also shown very good tolerance against Aster Yellows. Its tall, vigorous tops with strong attachment are well adapted to top lifting, and hold up well to late season frosts. It has very good internal and external color with a small core.

Tempo F1: An early maturing Nantes hybrid that is slotted for the early harvest slicing market or for processors in short season areas. Provides good early yield of 6 to 8 inch cylindrical roots that are very smooth, uniform, with good internal and external color and a sweet flavor. Tempo is also well suited to both the fresh and bunching markets.

Primo F1: This very early maturing Nantes carrot has 5 to 7 inch, slightly conical roots that blunt at maturity. It develops its orange color and characteristic sweetness at a very early stage, giving a larger harvest window of different size carrots, from true babies to bunch nantes.