Bayer Almost to the Max in the US Cotton Stakes

USDA reports most planted cottons
Oct 13, 2006 9:19 AM By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The Deltapine brand of upland cottonseed was the most popular planted in the United States in 2006, according to the USDA/Agricultural Marketing Service s Cotton Program. The FiberMax brand was the second most popular, followed by Stoneville, Paymaster, AFD Seed, PhytoGen, All-Tex and Americot...

Bayer CropScience FiberMax varieties were the second most popular brand planted in 2006, accounting for about 26.7 percent of the U.S. acreage. These varieties accounted for 3.1 percent of the acreage planted in the Southeast, 2.5 percent in the Mid-South, 54.8 percent in the Southwest, and 8.2 percent in the West.

FiberMax comes out of Australian crop breeding
BioScience and FiberMax Cotton, L. van der Broek

A successful cotton company was established during the past years by the BioScience business unit. FiberMax cotton the result of a highly successful collaboration between CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization), CSI (Cotton Seed International) and Bayer CropScience, BioScience is the basis for this success. FiberMax is of excellent quality. In fact it is its yield of lint, its fiber strength and fiber length which positions FiberMax besides Acala and Pima as a third quality category of the cotton crop. The success of Fiber-Max has been shown in the steep growth of planted area with FiberMax in the US and European cotton market during the past five years. In 2004 the USDA announced that of the planted acres in the US, FiberMax had 24.3 % market share. Because of the strong recognition of the fiber quality in FiberMax it is intended to further expand the offering by introducing the results of other R&D targets like input traits, abiotic stress tolerance and further improved fiber quality. This business innovation spanning the whole scope from discovery, research and development down to marketing and identity preserving is captured in one word "FiberMax ".
The overall aim of BioScience is to provide sustainable, high-value plant based solutions for the agriculture, nutrition, health and the biomaterials sectors. Vegetable seeds are marketed globally by Nunhems. New Business Ventures is aimed towards creating beneficial solutions for either the processing industry or the consumers in respect to nutrition, health and biomaterials. Products from New Business Ventures are not on the market at the moment but are presently in research or in the development pipelines. In addition to cotton, BioScience concentrates on the agricultural crop seeds, rice and canola. Rice developed at BioScience is a hybrid crop and marketed under the name Arize™ and known for its high yield. Canola is marketed primarily in North America under the InVigor brand name and it combines superior yield performance due to the SeedLink™ hybridization technology and weed control options because of the herbicide-tolerant LibertyLink system included in InVigor. BioScience is combined with Crop Protection in an integrated manner to provide optimal crop management opportunities and choices to the farmer.