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• NexGen Building a Reputation for Superior Fiber Quality, Plus Yield

  In a year of extremes, cotton growers appreciate good, high performing varieties. That’s what NexGen delivered during 2022.  “We’re still in the early stages of harvest,” says Mike Robinson, Americot

• New NexGen Varieties Are Turning Heads Across the Cotton Belt

  Cotton growers from the Carolinas to Texas are taking notice of NexGen variety performance this year. DOUG JOST won’t hide his enthusiasm about how well the 2021 cotton season has gone in Texas. “If

• Top-Performing NexGen Varieties Result from Americot Breeding & Research Programs

  For 2021, Americot introduced three new NexGen® B3XF varieties into their impressive portfolio of high-performing, superior-quality products. “We’re continually experiencing the benefits of our expanded Breeding and Research programs,” says

• NexGen Varieties Tested in Americot’s ACE Trial Program

  Americot’s investment into the research and development (R&D) of high yielding, high quality varieties has expanded over the last three years into a full-scale field trial program called Americot Cotton

• Americot Building on Adaptability, Yield and Fiber Enhancement

  As Americot Cotton Breeder Tom Brooks took the microphone at a September field day in Lubbock, TX, he told the hundred or so growers attending that he might get repetitive.

• Americot’s ACE Trial Program Underway

  From Arizona to the Carolinas, Americot now employs nine research and germplasm specialists. Across the Cotton Belt, this group has planted over 150 Americot Cotton Evaluation (ACE) Trials in 2019

• Grower Satisfaction, Geographic Fits Drive Americot Expansion

  Mike Tyler of Lamesa, TX, farms in Andrews, Dawson and Gaines Counties. He’s relied on NexGen varieties for several years, especially NG 3406 B2XF – his “go-to variety.” But he

• Strategic Growth Help Americot Make Its Stand in Cottonseed

  Chiree Fields remembers vividly the inauspicious launch of Americot. As the longest tenured employee of the company, she has seen it all unfold. “When I started working for David Hicks

• Americot NexGen Trials — Delivering Vital Information for the 2019 Growing Season

  Americot’s expanded Research and Development team have been busy this season working a number of research trials throughout their assigned regions. These trials are designed to gather in-depth data on

• Americot Steps Up Research Efforts

  2018 trials underway to assess variety performance, characteristics and traits in specific regions of the Cotton Belt Over the past year, Americot has expanded its Research and Development team with