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Bayer Deltapine® New Product Evaluator (NPE) Program is evaluating the 2027 class of cotton varieties. We caught up with Eric Best, Deltapine® Cotton Product Manager to learn more.
Best said, “We were sitting here talking about this two months ago, and we’ve seen cotton prices go up. We’re seeing a little bit of momentum and positivity around attitudes around the cotton crop across the U.S. this year, and trending with that is excitement around the new MPE class as well. It’s a producer-focused program we have, like you said, in our 19th season. And as we continue into this trade transition from the B3XF platform, which is pretty dominant across the U.S. in all markets, to the ThryvOn® platform, this year across the entire U.S., we’re looking at 10 new candidates, potentially for the class of 2027.”
“Eight of those are the B3XF with ThryvOn® technology, and then two are still B3XF lines we’re looking at, and that does represent the end of that pipeline. Doesn’t mean we’re not still going to sell them and produce them and make them available for producers, since that is the line to share what they’re comfortable with and what they want to plant from a yield and performance and reliability perspective, and things they have confidence in. But this does represent the end of the potentially commercial products new to launch into B3XF, moving on to the B3TXFs, those ThryvOn® lines,” said Best.
“And what growers have really noticed and told us the last couple of years is those new things in that ThryvOn® background have the yield, the grades, the native traits they want, whether it’s root knot resistance, reniform resistance, bacterial blight, other disease tolerances, coupled with the yield and quality that they demand. So anxious to see what this class looks like, depending on the region the producers are in. You know, they could have some subset of that 10, most likely three to four products. And then in a couple locations this year, growers are really excited about wanting to look at all of them. We actually have, you know, four or five growers in each of the different regions this year that want to look at all 10 of them, just to make sure they’re not missing something in this new trait platform. So really excited about that,” said Best.
Audio Reporting by Dale Sandlin for Southeast AgNet.