Lubbock, Texas
February 16, 2009
After hundreds of replicated
trials and several years of hard work,
Bayer CropScience
has announced that four experimental cotton varieties have
performed consistently and notably enough to join the ranks of
FiberMax® and Stoneville® cotton. Jeff Brehmer, U.S. marketing
manager, Stoneville and FiberMax cotton, said these new
varieties will raise the bar for yield and quality potential.
“We evaluated dozens of ‘good’ experimental varieties this past
year,” he said. “But ‘good’ isn’t good enough. For 2009, we’re
releasing only the true cream of the crop ― four truly great
cotton varieties.”
The four varieties ― FM 9160B2F, FM 1845LLB2, ST 4288B2F and ST
5288B2F ― all feature broad adaptability, high-yield potential
and excellent fiber packages, Brehmer said.
FM 9160B2F is a medium-maturity Bollgard II®/Roundup
Ready® Flex variety with a moderate growth habit. It is adapted
to the Southwest region with excellent storm resistance and
early indications of good Verticillium wilt tolerance. FM
9160B2F also exhibited a yield advantage in multiple trials over
standards such as FM 9063B2F and FM 9180B2F.
FM 1845LLB2 is an easy-to-manage, medium-maturity variety
with broad adaptation across the Mid-South, Southeast and
Mid-Atlantic production regions. Brehmer said FM 1845LLB2
consistently out-yielded FM 1735LLB2 by more than 100 lbs/A in
trials, and said it will bring the trademark FiberMax quality to
Southeast cotton growers. The LibertyLink® trait allows growers
to spray Ignite® herbicide over-the-top to control more than 120
species of broadleaf weeds and grasses, including
glyphostate-resistant pigweed and marestail.
ST 4288B2F is an early-to-midmaturing variety
well-adapted across the Mid-South, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic in
both irrigated and dryland conditions. Although it matures
relatively earlier than Stoneville varieties such as ST 4554B2F,
it has often out-yielded this variety in company trials. ST
4288B2F has a good fiber package with premium-grade length,
strength and uniformity possible.
ST 5288B2F is a medium-maturing variety that fits well in
the Mid-South, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic production regions. It
has the excellent seedling vigor growers have come to expect
from Stoneville, and it sets a high level of fruiting nodes.
Careful in-season management plus an aggressive, timely
defoliation program will reward growers with maximum yield and
fiber quality potential.
Brehmer said because Bayer CropScience conducted more than 140
Cotton Agronomic Performance (CAP) trials last year, they have
complete confidence in the 2009 new variety selections.
“Cotton growers manage CAP trials the same as they do the rest
of their acres,” Brehmer said. “Each variety therefore isn’t
spoon-fed nutrients or otherwise coddled. It must perform in
real-world environmental conditions under real-world management
practices. The bottom line is, these varieties have yielded and
graded well under rigorous testing. Growers who choose them have
an excellent chance to harvest profitable cotton.”
For more information on the complete 2009 lineup of FiberMax and
Stoneville varieties, contact your local Bayer CropScience field
representative or visit
www.CottonExperts.com.
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the
fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer
CropScience AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG with annual sales of
about EUR 5.8 billion (2007), is one of the world’s leading
innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop
protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and plant
biotechnology. The company offers an outstanding range of
products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable
agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer
CropScience has a global workforce of about 17,800 and is
represented in more than 120 countries.
Always read and follow label instructions.
Bayer, the Bayer Cross, FiberMax, Ignite, LibertyLink and
Stoneville are registered trademarks of Bayer.
Bollgard II® and Roundup Ready® Flex are trademarks of Monsanto
Technology LLC.
Certain stewardship guidelines are provided for Bollgard II
cotton at www.monsanto.com.
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