ABSTRACT

Beltwide Cotton Genetics, LLC (Beltwide) is a Memphis-based cottonseed company that currently sells cottonseed which originates exclusively in the south-Texas Rio Grande Valley. In an attempt to provide additional genetic diversity to the Midsouth cotton production area Beltwide submitted some south-Texas originating cultivars into the 2002 and 2003 Midsouth University Official Variety Trials (OVT) evaluations. One of these cultivars, BCG 28R, a Roundup Ready variety, was evaluated in direct comparison with two of the most widely planted Roundup Ready varieties in the Midsouth. In those OVT sites where all three cultivars were evaluated in head-to-head comparisons, BCG 28R produced yields, fiber quality, and gross returns per acre that were comparable to that produced by the two comparison varieties (ST4793RR and DP436R).