January 20, 2021
Evaluation of New Deltapine® Cotton Varieties - 2020
January 20, 2021
Each season, new Deltapine® cotton varieties are evaluated at the Bayer Learning Center in Scott, Mississippi for yield potential and growth habit. This information helps define the management practices needed to optimize the performance of existing and newly-introduced Deltapine cotton varieties.
This study was conducted to evaluate new cotton varieties in the cotton production system at Scott, Mississippi.
Location | Scott, MS Highway Plot Scott, MS Buckshot Plot |
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Soil Type | Commerce silt loam - 18 CEC Clay silt loam - 41 CEC |
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Previous Crop |
Corn | ||
Tillage Type |
Conventional |
Planting Date | 5/12/20 5/10/20 |
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Harvest Date | 10/01/20 10/10/20 |
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Potential Yield (lbs/acre) |
1500 1000 |
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Seeding Rate (seeds/acre) |
41,000 |
Cotton variety selection is one of the most important management decisions a grower must make each growing season. Selecting multiple cotton varieties allows for flexibility in relative maturity, management decisions, and risk aversion.
Evaluation of the new Deltapine® cotton varieties provides data to help growers make informed variety selection decisions.
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February 18, 2020
Each season a new set of candidate cotton varieties are introduced through the Deltapine® New Product Evaluator (NPE) program.
This study was conducted to evaluate the new products in the cotton production system at Scott, Mississippi.
Location | Scott, MS | ||
Soil Type | Commerce silt loam | ||
Previous Crop |
Corn | ||
Tillage Type |
Conventional |
Planting Date | 5/17/19 | ||
Harvest Date | 10/9/19 | ||
Potential Yield (lbs/acre) |
2400 | ||
Seeding Rate (seeds/acre) |
37.5K |
Varieties were planted in strip plots 6 rows wide and 550 feet long, approximately 0.25 acre/plot.
Six rows were harvested for yield and lint samples were ginned using research gins at Scott, Mississippi to estimate turnout.
An average turnout of 42% was observed across the tested varieties (Figure 1).
Higher than expected yields were observed across this study. Of the 12 tested varieties, 9 varieties had calculated yields of greater than 4 bales/acre (greater than 1920 lb/acre). The trial average was 1997 lb/acre.
In this demonstration, the highest yield ever recorded at Scott Learning Center was harvested. DP 1646 B2XF yielded 2394 lb of lint/acre or 4.9875 bales/acre. This is likely a function of favorable weather, management, and yield potential, which were all greatly positive factors during 2019.
The NPE candidate varieties and current commercial Deltapine® products appeared to have very high yield potential in the Scott, Mississippi location during 2019.
Consult your local Bayer representatives for further information about variety placement and management for the 2020 season.
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