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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