Americot Offers New XtendFlex Cotton Varieties For 2017

Americot provides growers with cotton varieties of high yield potential, excellent fiber quality, and disease tolerance with the most recent technologies that growers want and need to be successful.

In 2017, Americot will offer three new Bollgard II XtendFlex varieties and one new XtendFlex only variety to cotton growers:

• NG 3699 B2XF is an early-medium maturing variety with excellent yield potential, excellent fiber quality and Verticillium wilt and bacterial blight tolerance. NG 3699 B2XF is suited to plant on the south plains of Texas where early-med maturing varieties are preferred.
• NG 4601 B2XF is a medium-maturing variety with excellent yield potential and excellent fiber quality. NG 4601 B2XF is well suited to the lower Mississippi River Delta – including Louisiana and Mississippi – the lower Southeast, as well as central and south Texas.
• NG 4689 B2XF is a medium-maturing variety with excellent yield potential, excellent fiber quality and Verticillium wilt and bacterial blight tolerance. NG 4689 B2XF is well suited to the south and rolling plains of Texas and Oklahoma on both irrigated and dryland acres.
• NG 3640 XF is an early-medium maturing XtendFlex-only variety with excellent yield potential, excellent fiber quality and Verticillium wilt and bacterial blight tolerance. NG 3640 XF is well suited for the south plains of Texas on both irrigated and dryland acres.

In addition to the four new varieties, Americot will continue to offer the following:

• NG 3405 B2XF and NG 3522 B2XF are early-medium maturing varieties with excellent yield potential and are suited to plant where early-medium maturing varieties are desired, such as the northern Panhandle of Texas, Kansas, northern Mississippi River Delta and the northern Southeast.
• NG 3517 B2XF is an early-medium maturing variety with excellent yield potential, excellent fiber quality and Verticillium wilt and bacterial blight tolerance. NG 3517 B2XF is well suited to plant on the south plains of Texas where early-med maturing varieties are preferred.
• NG 3406 B2XF – the Most Planted Cotton Variety in the United States in 2016 – is an early-medium maturing variety with excellent yield potential and excellent fiber quality. NG 3406 B2XF is widely adapted across the Cotton Belt on both irrigated and dryland acres.
• NG 4545 B2XF is a medium maturing variety with excellent yield potential, excellent fiber quality and Verticillium wilt and bacterial blight tolerance. NG 4545 B2XF is well suited to the south and rolling plains of Texas and Oklahoma on both irrigated and dryland acres.
• NG 5007 B2XF is a medium-full maturing variety with excellent yield potential and excellent fiber quality and is suited to areas where medium-full maturing varieties are preferred such as the rolling plains of Texas, south Texas, Oklahoma and the southern Southeast.
• NG 3500 XF is an early-medium maturing XtendFlex-only variety with excellent yield potential, excellent fiber quality and Verticillium wilt and bacterial blight tolerance. NG 3500 XF is well suited for the south plains of Texas on both irrigated and dryland acres.