Two new F2 from Hybrid cotton varieties will be added to the CHEMBRED, Inc. product line for 1993. CHEMBRED now offers an adapted premium cotton variety to growers in every cotton producing area of the United States.

Acala CB 305, bred for the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) of California and approved by the SJV Cotton Board in March 1992, gives CHEMBRED a second variety for planting in the SJV. SJV Cotton Board and State Extension test data, four years (1989-1992) and twenty-eight locations, demonstrates consistent yield and fiber quality advantages over the SJV standards, GC-510 and SJ-2. Seedling vigor and spider mite resistance of Acala CB 305 is excellent, and fusarium wilt/nematode and verticillium wilt resistance is very good.

CB 830, a stripper-type variety, marks the commercial entry of CHEMBRED into the cotton producing areas on the High Plains of Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Texas State Test results over two years (1990-1991) and five locations demonstrates that CB 830 out-yields the leading variety, HS 26, while exhibiting fiber quality that is predominantly in the HVI premium range. Seedling vigor and storm resistance of CB 830 is excellent, and verticillium wilt resistance is good.

Overall, CHEMBRED's F2 from Hybrid cotton varieties continue to perform on a superior level providing growers across the cotton belt a consistently profitable alternative to conventional pure-line cotton varieties.