GlyTol: Higher Yields, Better Quality
April 20, 2011 
Kenny Melton
Daniel Olivier
In all, Bayer CropScience is releasing four new varieties stacked with the GlyTol trait for the 2011 growing season.
FM 9101GT and FM 9103GT are designed to have a great fit on the High and Rolling Plains. FM 9250GL is also well-suited for the High and Rolling Plains regions of Texas, and is stacked with both GlyTol and LibertyLink traits. A fourth variety, FM 2011GT, is available in limited quantities in 2011. It too has shown great potential in the Southwest region.
Bayer CropScience representatives say these varieties feature characteristics that are best suited to withstand the harsh, unique growing conditions of West Texas.
"All of these varieties are very similar, as far as maturity, to FM 9058F," Melton says. "We know that’s the variety that everyone will be comparing these new ones with. The maturity is very similar, the storm tolerance is another really important feature out here in Texas, and the storm tolerance is similar to FM 9058F as well."
Melton stressed that the GlyTol varieties, in addition to featuring new technology, also had to pass the high standards of Bayer’s variety selection process.
"As Bayer was preparing to launch this new GlyTol technology, we knew that we had already set the bar pretty high with FiberMax varieties. The yield obviously is the big thing that’s on everyone’s mind, especially these days with prices the way they are. But one of the things that FiberMax has built its reputation on is excellent fiber quality. So Bayer knew that we needed varieties that met or exceeded our existing varieties in terms of their yield and fiber quality," Melton says.
Throughout the TechTour, Melton and fellow Bayer CropScience agronomist Daniel Olivier provided the results of 2010 testing, showing time and again that new GlyTol technologies meet or exceed standard FiberMax results in terms of yield and fiber quality. Those results were pulled from on-farm testing across the Southwest.
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