Deltapine released four new cotton varieties for the class of 2025 at the New Product Evaluator Summit held in Nashville, Tennessee, Dec. 13 to 15. This is the 17th year for NPE growers to plant and evaluate candidate cotton varieties and provide feedback and final harvest results that help determine which varieties Deltapine will commercialize. In 2025, Deltapine will celebrate 110 years of its cotton-breeding program.
“What we saw in these four varieties was stable, high-end performance relative to growing conditions,” said Eric Best, Deltapine cotton product manager. “NPE plot data came in from across the Belt, with some managed through very tough growing conditions and some hurt at harvest by rainfall. Others were grown and evaluated in normal to good growing conditions, all of it providing a solid look at the performance potential of these products across a range of conditions. These four products have what it takes to be in the Deltapine product lineup for 2025.”
One of the varieties to be released commercially was DP 2537 B3TXF, a Bollgard 3 ThryvOn Cotton with XtendFlex Technology variety. DP 2537 is a mid-full maturity variety that shows excellent strength of terminal and has an open canopy. This variety demonstrated outstanding yield potential in the 2024 NPE plots and will be the latest maturing B3TXF product in the Deltapine lineup targeted to the lower Mid-South and upper Southeast markets. More than 60% of Mid-South NPE growers and 85% of Southeast NPE growers who evaluated this product approved its performance and rated it as likely to purchase and plant.
Another Bollgard 3 ThryvOn Cotton with XtendFlex Technology variety that made the 2025 class is DP 2522NR B3TXF. This is an early-mid maturity variety with resistance to both reniform nematodes and bacterial blight. This variety exhibited stable yield performance potential on reniform nematode-infested fields across the coastal bend of south Texas, the lower Mid-South and the Southeast. Of the NPE growers who evaluated this product, 60% approved its performance and rated it as likely to purchase and plant.
The last two varieties are Bollgard 3 with XtendFlex Technology varieties. DP 2525 B3XF is an early-mid maturity variety resistant to bacterial blight and moderately tolerant to Verticillium wilt for the Northern Texas High Plains. This variety has the potential to produce improved fiber quality. Of the NPE growers who evaluated this product, more than 85% approved its performance and rated it as likely to purchase and plant.
DP 2541 B3XF is a mid-full maturity variety that is resistant to bacterial blight and moderately tolerant to Verticillium wilt. In 2024 NPE plots, this variety demonstrated improved yield performance in the higher-yielding environments of the Southern High Plains of Texas over DP 1646 B2XF and DP 2335 B3XF. Of the NPE growers who evaluated this product, 60% approved its performance and rated it as likely to purchase and plant.
“This is an outstanding class of new cotton varieties that have the potential to raise yield expectations, according to feedback from NPE growers,” Best said. “DP 2537 B3TXF could be a step change up in yield potential in B3TXF cotton varieties, and DP 2541 B3XF, when planted in moderate to high irrigation fields in the Southern High Plains of Texas, has the potential to produce excellent yields. We brought another nematode-resistant B3TXF variety to market and more products with bacterial blight resistance.”
To learn more about the NPE program and the new varieties, visit www.deltapine.com/NPE.
Lacey Vilhauer can be reached at 620-227-1871 or [email protected].
