By Matthew Foster, Waltman, William F., Burns, Dennis, Stephenson, Daniel O., Woolam, Brandi C., Buckley, Blair, Dickson, John I., Brown, Sebe, Price, III, Paul P, Purvis, Myra, Padgett, Guy B., Ezell, Dustin, Franks, Dalton, Collins, Fred L., Parvej, Md Rasel, Towles, Tyler, Netterville, Melanie
LSU AgCenter
Scientists with the LSU AgCenter annually evaluate cotton varieties in official variety trials (OVTs) at several locations across the state. Cotton varieties are managed using practices that follow LSU AgCenter recommendations and demonstrate commercial operations as closely as possible. All entries in the trials are replicated four times, and results are compiled for average performance after one or two years of testing. In 2021, 48 varieties were entered by commercial seed companies in the OVTs (Table 3). Locations of these trials included the LSU AgCenter Dean Lee Research and Extension Center, Alexandria; LSU AgCenter Macon Ridge Research Station, Winnsboro; and LSU AgCenter Northeast Research Station, St. Joseph.