2013 Cotton Varieties Planting Report

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The USDA Agriculture Marketing Service recently released their 2013 cotton varieties planted report. The full report can be found here.  As can be seen in the table below, the top six varieties accounted for 89.8% of all cotton planted in the state. Tennessee planted a lot of WRF or Liberty Link (LL) varieties, with 78.8% of the varieties planted having tolerance to Liberty. Over 99.6% of varieties were Bt cotton.

 

Variety % Planted
PHY 375 WRF 40.6
PHY 499 WRF 19.3
DP 0912 B2RF 11.7
ST 4145 LLB2 9.4
PHY 367 WRF 5.1
FM 1944 GLB2 3.7