All-Tex: Research Pays Off
December 3, 2010 
All-Tex Seed owner and general manager Cody Poage is quick to acknowledge that his company doesn’t quite have all the resources of the larger seed corporations. That doesn’t mean he’ll shy away from the competition, though.
The company owes it survival to a progressive seed-development program, with test plots that dot the Cotton Belt and nurseries in the U.S. and Costa Rica.
“We’ve really put a lot of our focus on our research over the last five years, and we’re starting to see the fruits of that labor,” says Poage. “We think we can go toe-to-toe with (bigger companies), and I think you’ll start seeing that in the test trials. We feel the things we have coming are going to out-yield and out-grade what they have.”
All-Tex varieties accounted for 4.8% of the market in the Southwest in 2010 — much of that percentage is Apex B2RF, the company’s top seller. But Poage believes a new variety, Epic RF, could soon surpass Apex sales.
“It’s done very well and is still doing very well, and people are taking notice. Our seed sales for (Epic) are at double or quadruple what they were last year for this coming year,” says Poage. “It’s one of the ones that we get excited about.”
Although it has its sights set on mainstream markets, All-Tex will continue to serve its established markets in and around Texas. Poage points to an okra leaf variety, OL 220, that has a fit in south Texas.
“There’s not a lot of people who plant the okra leaf anymore, but there are people right around Corpus Christi who like it. We also have a conventional Pima cotton that we’re selling in New Mexico,” he says.
For more information on All-Tex seed, see: www.alltexseed.com.
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