Americot Continues to Grow Market Share
February 14, 2012 Americot provides growers with seed varieties of high yield potential and excellent fiber quality, the technologies that growers want and need, and turnrow service from planting to harvest.
The company claimed a 6.2% market share in 2010, and increased it to 11% in 2011.
The Americot and NexGen varieties have been available with Roundup Ready Flex only, or stacked with both Roundup Ready Flex and Bollgard II.
For the first time, Americot will also offer a conventional variety – AM UA48 – that was developed by the University of Arkansas. It is well suited for the northern cotton growing areas of the Mid-South.
“Our varieties are field-proven,” says Americot General Manager Terry Campbell. “In addition to providing quality products with excellent performance, we have an exceptional sales force that remains in the field with the growers throughout the season.
“Cotton growers know that our NexGen and Americot brand varieties are cottons they can count on year in and year out. We have several workhorses in the field and will continue introducing new varieties from our extensive breeding program,” he continues. “We have and continue to develop cottons that address the local needs of growers in the Southwest, Mid-South and Southeast.”
Americot says the newest NexGen variety has raised the bar for Southwest growers. NG 2051 B2RF offers growers excellent yield potential, an excellent fiber package and excellent seedling vigor. It is a storm-proof variety that exhibits verticillium wilt tolerance. NG 2051 B2RF is an early maturing cotton with medium plant height. It has the ability to perform under either irrigated or dryland production systems, and is well suited to the northern production areas of the High Plains of Texas, northern Oklahoma, and Kansas, or in any situation where the growing season is limited.
In the Mid-South and Southeast, Americot offers two new varieties under its Americot brand:
• The new AM UA48 is well suited for the northern cotton growing areas of the Mid-South. This early maturing variety offers an excellent fiber package and good yield potential. AM UA48 has also shown tolerance to root-knot nematodes.
• AM 1511 B2RF is a Bollgard II, Roundup Ready Flex variety that features excellent yield potential and an excellent fiber package. AM 1511 B2RF is medium to tall, semi-smooth leaf variety that has performed very well in the Carolinas, Georgia, the northern Mississippi River Delta, Virginia and central and south Texas.
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