Entries sought for cotton contest

BASF, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is seeking entries for the FiberMax One Ton Club and growers an impressive reward. 

The application deadline for FiberMax One Ton Club is Feb. 28. Printed qualification forms were mailed to FiberMax growers in early November, and applications can also be submitted online (fibermax.com/otc-form). Qualifying growers who attend the banquet in Lubbock, Texas, on March 30, can enter for a chance to win a two-year lease on a Ford Super Duty F-350 Lariat truck. Ford is not a sponsor of the FiberMax One Ton Club. Terms and conditions apply. 

To qualify for the club, FiberMax One Ton Club growers must produce a minimum of 2,000 pounds of ginned cotton per acre on a minimum of 20 acres planted with 100% FiberMax cotton from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2022.

The FiberMax One Ton Club is open to growers in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Growers must provide an accurate and complete qualification form and gin recap sheets to verify 2,000 pounds an acre yields.