"The Future of Cotton is Here..."

That’s the slogan of the day, which justly matches the theme for the 2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences, “Improving Our Farm, Future and World.” Today Deltapine releases its Class of ‘09 varieties, which include:

• DP 0912 B2RF – a new early maturing variety from Monsanto



• DP 0920 B2RF and DP 0924 B2RF – new early-mid maturing varieties from Monsanto



• DP 0935 B2RF – a new mid maturing variety from Monsanto



• DP 0949 B2RF – a new mid-full maturing variety from Monsanto
  

As part of the Class of ‘09 release, Deltapine is awarding nine $1,000 scholarships to college students. In order to be eligible for a scholarship, the applicant must be a high school senior with a minimum 2.80 GPA. The student must plan to attend a two- or four-year college or university with the intent to study an agriculture-related field. The student must also live in a cotton-producing state and be involved in cotton production. The scholarship winners, who will be announced today, are the nine students who wrote the best essays titled, “My Future in Cotton.”

Deltapine plans to continue its scholarship tradition and will award 10 college scholarships next year with the release of the Class of 10 varieties.

For more information on the new varieties and the scholarship program, click here.