FieldNotes
Volume 2, Issue 2 • December 2008
Thanks for Making PhytoGen®
Your Cottonseed of Choice
Cotton growers
continue to be
concerned with
limited seed choices.
However, as this fall
harvest season has
shown, yield and
quality results are
proving PhytoGen ®
cottonseed varieties
to be viable alternatives for producers.
In 2008, we introduced a limited quantity
of PhytoGen brand PHY 375 WRF —
our first-ever early season WideStrike®
Insect Protection and Roundup Ready ® Flex
stacked variety. While we were expecting
good things from this variety, even we
were surprised by the remarkable results
we’ve seen this year. It’s already being
viewed as the benchmark for evaluating
early maturity varieties. In 2009, we’ll have
a good supply of this new, broadly adapted
and stable early maturity variety.
Another one of our leading varieties,
PhytoGen brand PHY 485 WRF, had
another strong year. It continues to
be a top variety with WideStrike and
Roundup Ready Flex. It has proven to
be widely adaptable and consistent over
the years with very good seedling vigor
and a very good fiber package.
The varieties we introduce are proven
performers, developed from high-quality
genetics. I believe the same can be said
for our people. In this issue, you’ll read more
about the customer agronomists we’ve
teamed up with to help bring solutions
to cotton producers across the country.
We’re happy to have them join our team.
And as we move into harvest evaluation
and the holidays, I’d also like to thank you
for making the PhytoGen choice. Thank you
to all of the growers who chose PhytoGen
last season. You made the right choice that
pays off in the field and at the gin.
Duane Canfield
Cotton Marketing Specialist
Dow AgroSciences is Committed to Cotton Production
PhytoGen® cottonseed was originally
developed in California more than 30 years
ago by the J.G. Boswell Company. Today,
Dow AgroSciences is continually working to
bring PhytoGen’s proven genetics — longtime
leaders in the Pima and Acala markets —
to Upland varieties in the southern cotton
production areas of the United States.
Over the past three years, PhytoGen has
expanded its breeding and evaluation
capabilities in the Delta, mid-Atlantic
and Southeastern regions. In 2008,
Dow AgroSciences purchased a larger
research station in Leland, Miss., to
spearhead PhytoGen research efforts
in the southern states.
“We continue to improve upon varieties
that have been accepted by growers in
the early to midmaturity of our portfolio,
in addition to developing a portfolio of
full-maturity varieties that will be
available in 2010,” says John Pellow,
North America seeds and traits cotton
field station leader for PhytoGen.
PhytoGen also has successfully moved a
portion of its portfolio into South Texas and
continues to invest in Southwestern seed
production and processing. Pellow reports
PhytoGen also is testing varieties for heat
tolerance in Arizona.
“It is very obvious in the research and
development community that PhytoGen
cottonseed is becoming a very
competitive option for growers. With the
investment in property and personnel,
and expanding our capabilities and acres,
the expanding portfolio is now being
released. PhytoGen is an emerging
cottonseed company all growers should
consider,” Pellow says.
“We know how to become market leaders. We’ve done
it in the West, and we’re investing to do it again
throughout the Southwest, Midsouth and Southeast.”
— John Pellow, North America seeds and traits cotton field station leader for PhytoGen
Dow AgroSciences Strengthens Growers’ Resources
PhytoGen Team Expands to Include Agronomists
Dow AgroSciences and PhytoGen are teaming up with crop experts
in the cotton industry to help bring solutions to more growers. The
company is adding several new agronomists to work with PhytoGen®
cottonseed in the cotton-growing areas of the country.
Baxter Clark is a new addition to the sales team as
a PhytoGen customer agronomist for southern
Georgia. Clark has been involved with cotton all
his life, having grown up on a large cotton
plantation. For the past 12 years, he managed a
13,000-acre farm, 6,000 acres of that being cotton.
Clark believes working in cotton production
directly has given him insight to the needs and
wants of growers and will bring this knowledge and experience to
the PhytoGen sales force.
Baxter Clark, PhytoGen customer agronomist; phone: (478) 308-0146
Clay Despain joins the PhytoGen sales team as a
PhytoGen customer agronomist for northeastern
Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel. Despain is a
licensed crop adviser who has worked with cotton
growers in northern Arkansas for the past 13
years, helping them reach maximum production of
their cotton crop. During this time, Despain has
served as a scouting supervisor for Cotton
Services Inc., as an intern for Delta and Pine Land and, most
recently, as an independent cotton consultant.
Clay Despain, PhytoGen customer agronomist; phone: (870) 219-4898
Le Reginelli Fife began working with
Dow AgroSciences as a sales representative
in the Texas High Plains more than four years
ago. Working primarily with cotton in that area,
she was then named PhytoGen cotton
development specialist in the northern Delta
region of the Midsouth. She worked in that
role for two years before becoming a PhytoGen
customer agronomist for southern Arkansas, central Mississippi
and the state of Louisiana.
Bill Peele will be working as a PhytoGen customer
agronomist with cotton growers in North Carolina.
Peele brings 15 years in the cotton industry and
25 years of experience as a crop consultant to the
PhytoGen sales team. Most recently, he served
as president and chief agronomist for IMPACT
Agronomics, Inc., a research and consulting service
that provides growers with crop production
recommendations. IMPACT Agronomics has been a research partner
with Dow AgroSciences for the past three years, which has allowed
Peele to work with current and future PhytoGen brand products.
Bill Peele, PhytoGen customer agronomist; phone: (252) 943-8182
This will be the second growing season Paul
Pilsner has worked as a PhytoGen customer
agronomist across Texas, from the Rio Grande
Valley to the Brazos River Bottom. An
entomologist, Pilsner has worked as a cotton
consultant for the past 20 years, including stints
in Australia and South America. Pilsner became
involved with PhytoGen after seeing the benefits
of WideStrike ® Insect Protection in managing worm pressures in
South Texas.
Paul Pilsner, PhytoGen customer agronomist; phone: (979) 531-9889
Dirk Smith joined the PhytoGen sales team as a
PhytoGen customer agronomist for Tennessee,
east-central Arkansas and a portion of
northwestern Mississippi. Smith recently
served as an independent contractor for Ag
Spectrum Company in West Memphis, Ark.,
involving the implementation of the Nu-Till
System, as well as working with Farm Credit
as an agricultural loan officer.
Dirk Smith, PhytoGen customer agronomist; phone: (901) 356-2442
From their experiences in the cotton industry, this group of
agronomists has seen firsthand the value PhytoGen cottonseed
can bring to an operation.
Le Reginelli Fife, PhytoGen customer agronomist; phone: (662) 544-1244
Volume 2, Issue 2
PhytoGen Big Buck Contest Winners Announced
Ted Selby of Portland, Ark., and Scott Flowers of Clarksdale, Miss.,
were recently named winners of the PhytoGen Big Buck Contest held
nationwide by Dow AgroSciences. Selby and Flowers tied for first
place in a neck-and-neck competition that went down to the end.
Selby’s winning entry was a nontypical, 15-point whitetail buck that
was bagged near Lake Anthony in Ashley County, Ark., on Nov. 25,
2007. It scored 197 7⁄8 points on the Boone and Crockett scale.
To enter, each grower had to purchase 10 bags of PhytoGen ®
cottonseed from an authorized PhytoGen cottonseed dealer.
Selby planted 4,000 acres of cotton this year, including PhytoGen
brand PHY 375 WRF and PHY 485 WRF varieties. Flowers planted
PHY 370 WR and PHY 485 WRF varieties on a portion of his
4,200 cotton acres.
Flowers’ winning entry was an eight-point whitetail buck that was
bagged Dec. 16, 2007. It scored 153 1⁄8 points on the Boone and
Crockett scale.
The PhytoGen Big Buck Contest encouraged growers to send in
a detailed account, accompanied by a photograph, of a hunting
expedition that resulted in a kill. Judging was based on three
criteria: originality of story (60 percent); relevance of photo to story
(30 percent); and mass appeal of the story and photo (10 percent).
Each cotton grower earned a $2,500 Cabela’s ® prize package that
included hunting equipment and apparel.
More details of the winning entries can be found at
PhytoGenBigBuck.com.
From left: Kerry Saylors, Dow AgroSciences sales representative, is pictured with PhytoGen Big Buck Contest co-winner Scott Flowers of Clarksdale, Miss.,
and Duane Canfield, marketing manager for PhytoGen. Also taking home the contest prize was Ted Selby of Portland, Ark., (left) who tied for first place.
He is pictured in front of his big buck along with Jonathan Bagwell, Dow AgroSciences sales representative.
Natural Refuge Option with WideStrike®
We want to hear from you!
Cotton producers in eligible areas are no longer required to plant a non-Bt cotton
refuge for PhytoGen® cottonseed containing WideStrike® Insect Protection.
The PhytoGen® cottonseed team wants to hear from
you. We want to answer your questions and hear
your success stories. Call or e-mail your local sales
representative or visit www.PhytoGenYields.com.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a set-aside of
non-Bt cotton is no longer needed in certain areas, as other crop and
noncrop plants serve as a natural refuge. However, a non-Bt cotton refuge is
still required as part of an Insect Resistance Management (IRM) program for
PhytoGen cottonseed containing WideStrike planted outside eligible areas.
WideStrike — available exclusively in PhytoGen cottonseed — provides
season-long protection against leaf-, square- and boll-feeding worms by using
innovative in-plant technology. Check with your local PhytoGen sales
representative, as certain prohibitions apply in some areas. Failure to comply
with IRM requirements could result in the loss of access to the technology.
December 2008 The Web site is the go-to location for the latest
information from PhytoGen. No other resource
provides the breadth of information on a national
and local perspective that’s devoted exclusively to
the performance of PhytoGen cottonseed varieties.
Whether you’re looking for the staple length of a
PhytoGen cottonseed variety or exploring how a
variety performed in your area, the answer is a click
away at www.PhytoGenYields.com.
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