With lagging commodity prices and uncertainties ahead, you need high-yielding cotton varieties that provide more opportunities to increase profit potential. Consider PhytoGen® brand varieties to help maximize your return on investment in 2025.
PhytoGen® brand varieties offer high yield potential plus the opportunities to improve profitability through benefits such as strong seedling vigor, native traits and excellent fiber quality.
Establishing a uniform stand is not simply about beginning the season well. Strong emergence from PhytoGen brand varieties can potentially reduce upfront input costs.
Many PhytoGen customers have found they can plant lower seeding rates with PhytoGen® cottonseed, compared to top competitive varieties, and still produce high yields.
Georgia producer Judson Herrington began planting PhytoGen brand varieties three years ago and has conducted numerous seeding rate trials on his farm. He has substantially reduced his seeding rates in recent years, from 38,000 seed/A to 27,000 seed/A.
“That’s saving 11,000 seed per acre over 2,000 acres — that’s a lot of money,” Herrington said. “Based on what we’ve learned last season, I will probably plant at an even lower rate of 25,000 seed/A with my PhytoGen varieties next season. You can plant lower populations with PhytoGen and still see the same yield as competitive varieties.”
PhytoGen brand varieties also provide the opportunity to save on crop protection costs due to built-in protection from root-knot and reniform nematodes. Nematicide applications are costly, and many PhytoGen customers have found that they can forgo applications without impacting yield.
Producer Rodney Helton has planted PhytoGen brand varieties since 2020 and has lowered input costs all while raising his yield.
“These PhytoGen varieties changed the game for us. The yields are higher, a good bit higher,” Helton said. “And by the first of July, my chemical bill was $200,000 less than the year before, because we save input costs by planting PhytoGen varieties with nematode resistance.”
In nematode research published by the University of Florida-Extension, PhytoGen brand varieties with nematode resistance provided a $300/A or higher return compared to a susceptible variety that required a nematicide treatment. The research also stated that “PhytoGen resistant cultivars may provide a more consistent return than Deltapine 2141NR.”
Yield is the driver of farm revenue, but fiber quality also impacts your balance sheet. PhytoGen varieties offer a complete package with the potential to improve yield and fiber quality.
Alabama producer Liz Spruell started planting new PhytoGen brand varieties three years ago and immediately improved both yield and quality. The change increased her average yields by 15% or more while also producing exceptional fiber quality that helps her get a premium for her cotton.
“Financially, PhytoGen has been a win-win for us all around, because it has yield and quality,” Spruell said. “You don’t normally get to ask for everything, but we got it.”
Excellent fiber quality is like a team with a good offense and defense: It ensures you get the most for your cotton fiber by protecting against deductions while offering the potential for premiums. In seasons when commodity markets lag, quality is even more important in the fiscal equation.
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