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    Stoneville®

    A great cotton season calls for strength in you and in your crop. Stoneville has the varieties and traits that deliver early-season vigor, which leads to in-season strength and high yield potential at harvest. Combine our science with your cotton-growing art and get a strong start with Stoneville.

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    Benefits of Stoneville
    Early-season vigor, as evidenced by consistent stand establishment. Stoneville starts growing and keeps growing.
    High yield potential, as evidenced by performance in Official Variety Trials conducted by land-grant university researchers across the Cotton Belt.
    Increased profit opportunity through higher yield potential and improved quality.
    Flexible weed management with LibertyLink® and GlyTol® traits, giving you weed control options that include Liberty®, a working nonselective herbicide that is effective on tough-to-control grasses and broadleaves.
    Proven worm control with either TwinLink Plus, powered by three Bt genes, or TwinLink®, with two Bt genes.

    Variety Overview

    The Yield You Need; The Quality You Want
    You need varieties that reliably deliver high yield potential and premium quality in a trait package with pest management tools tailored to efficiently control your toughest weeds and insects.

    Choose Stoneville® Varieties…

    • For High Yield Potential
      • Stoneville varieties are valuable players in Official Variety Trials conducted by land-grant university researchers across the Cotton Belt, routinely topping yield charts and profitability studies.
    • For Improved Profit
      • Growers who plant Stoneville increase their opportunity for profit through higher yield potential and improved quality.
    • For Proven Pest Control Traits
      • With Stoneville® varieties you choose the traits that fit your fields for proven weed and lepidopteran control. Because you’re in this for the long haul, the traits also provide multiple sites of action for resistance management.

    The Stoneville lineup includes these BASF proprietary traits: GlyTol® glyphosate-tolerant technology (GT), GlyTol LibertyLink® technology (GL) and GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink® technology (GLT).

    GlyTol (GT) gives you a wide application window for over-the-top application of all brands of glyphosate herbicide.

    GlyTol LibertyLink (GL) provides you with the in-season option to rotate Liberty® herbicides with glyphosate. The LibertyLink trait offers maximum crop safety and proven control of your most challenging weeds, including glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth.

    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink (GLT) adds lepidopteran control to the weed management traits, giving you season-long, two-gene Bt protection against worm pests plus full tolerance to Liberty herbicide and glyphosate.

    Variety Relative Maturity*

    * Relative maturity can vary based on management practices, environmental conditions and geographic regions.

    Varieties by Region

    Stoneville has an innovative cottonseed variety lineup that offers growers a range of varieties to fit their fields and farming management practices.

    West

        Varieties Maturity Verticillium  Wilt RKN/FusariumWilt Height/Growth Habit Storm  Tolerance** Length Strength Micronaire
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5020GLT Medium Fair Fair Medium/Tall 5 1.21 33.1 4.6
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4848GLT Early/Medium Fair† Fair† Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 30.9 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4949GLT Early/Medium Intermediate† Fair† Medium/Moderate 6 1.13 30.3 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 6182GLT Full Fair Fair Tall/Vigorous 5 1.15 29.4 4.6
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 4946GLB2 Early/Medium Fair Good Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.7 4.5
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 6448GLB2 Full Fair Fair Tall/Vigorous 5 1.19 29.5 4.4

    ** Storm Tolerance Rating Scale: 9 Very Storm-Tolerant, 0 Very Loose.
    † Initial results based on limited data

    Southwest

        Varieties Maturity VerticilliumWilt RKN/FusariumWilt Height/Growth Habit Storm  Tolerance** Length Strength Micronaire
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink Plus   ST 5517GLTP Late-Mid N/A N/A Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.2 4.4
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink Plus   ST 5471GLTP Medium Very Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.18 31.8 4.3
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4848GLT Early/Medium Fair† Fair† Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 30.9 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4949GLT Early/Medium Intermediate† Fair† Medium/Moderate 6 1.13 30.3 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5122GLT Early/Medium Very Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 31.1 4.2
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 4747GLB2 Early/Medium Intermediate Fair Medium/Moderate 6 1.18 29.3 4.3
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 4946GLB2 Early/Medium Fair Good Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.7 4.5

    ** Storm Tolerance Rating Scale: 9 Very Storm-Tolerant, 0 Very Loose.
    † Initial results based on limited data.

    South Texas

        Varieties Maturity VerticilliumWilt RKN/FusariumWilt Height/Growth Habit Storm  Tolerance** Length Strength Micronaire
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink Plus   ST 5517GLTP Late-Mid N/A N/A Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.2 4.4
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink Plus   ST 5471GLTP Medium Very Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.18 31.8 4.3
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4848GLT Early/Medium Fair† Fair† Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 30.9 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4949GLT Early/Medium Intermediate† Fair† Medium/Moderate 6 1.13 30.3 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5122GLT Early/Medium Very Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 31.1 4.2
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5818GLT Mid-Full Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.19 30.8 4.1
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 4946GLB2 Early/Medium Fair Good Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.7 4.5

    ** Storm Tolerance Rating Scale: 9 Very Storm-Tolerant, 0 Very Loose.
    † Initial results based on limited data.

    Mid-South

        Varieties Maturity VerticilliumWilt RKN/FusariumWilt Height/Growth Habit Storm  Tolerance** Length Strength Micronaire
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink Plus   ST 5517GLTP Late-Mid N/A N/A Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.2 4.4
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink Plus   ST 5471GLTP Medium Very Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.18 31.8 4.3
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5020GLT Medium Fair Fair Medium/Tall 5 1.21 33.1 4.6
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4848GLT Early/Medium Fair† Fair† Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 30.9 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4949GLT Early/Medium Intermediate† Fair† Medium/Moderate 6 1.13 30.3 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5115GLT Medium Intermediate Fair Medium/Tall 6 1.14 30.9 4.4
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 6182GLT Full Fair Fair Tall/Vigorous 5 1.15 29.4 4.6
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5122GLT Early/Medium Very Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 31.1 4.2
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5818GLT Mid-Full Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.19 30.8 4.1
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 4747GLB2 Early/Medium Intermediate Fair Medium/Moderate 6 1.18 29.3 4.3
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 4946GLB2 Early/Medium Fair Good Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.7 4.5
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 6448GLB2 Full Fair Fair Tall/Vigorous 5 1.19 29.5 4.4

    ** Storm Tolerance Rating Scale: 9 Very Storm-Tolerant, 0 Very Loose.
    † Initial results based on limited data.

    Southeast

        Varieties Maturity VerticilliumWilt RKN/FusariumWilt Height/Growth Habit Storm  Tolerance** Length Strength Micronaire
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink Plus   ST 5517GLTP Late-Mid N/A N/A Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.2 4.4
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink Plus   ST 5471GLTP Medium Very Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.18 31.8 4.3
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5020GLT Medium Fair Fair Medium/Tall 5 1.21 33.1 4.6
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4848GLT Early/Medium Fair† Fair† Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 30.9 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 4949GLT Early/Medium Intermediate† Fair† Medium/Moderate 6 1.13 30.3 4.7
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5115GLT Medium Intermediate Fair Medium/Tall 6 1.14 30.9 4.4
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 6182GLT Full Fair Fair Tall/Vigorous 5 1.15 29.4 4.6
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5122GLT Early/Medium Very Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.16 31.1 4.2
    GlyTol LibertyLink TwinLink   ST 5818GLT Mid-Full Good Fair Medium/Moderate 5 1.19 30.8 4.1
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 4747GLB2 Early/Medium Intermediate Fair Medium/Moderate 6 1.18 29.3 4.3
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 4946GLB2 Early/Medium Fair Good Medium/Moderate 6 1.15 31.7 4.5
    GlyTol LibertyLink Bollgard II   ST 6448GLB2 Full Fair Fair Tall/Vigorous 5 1.19 29.5 4.4

    Varieties

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    Legacy Club™

    When you plant cotton, you also grow Southern pride. That’s why the Stoneville Legacy Club was created for the Delta region, to celebrate hard-earned harvests from outstanding growers.

    Cotton Planting Forecasting

    Growing cotton is an art, but it helps to have some science to determine when to plant and kick off the season with your Stoneville® cotton seed. And once again, BASF brings the science.

    Developed by agronomists in conjunction with the Center for Geospatial Technology at Texas Tech University, this tool provides a beltwide cotton planting forecast for your desired county or area based on air temp, soil temp and DD60 conditions. Read more.

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    BASF Variety Selector Tool Maximize success with the right seed variety for your field. 

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