Print This PageRoundup Ready Flex Cotton
"Fuel cost is an issue, so any time you can save a trip across the field, it’s significant."
Steve Bailey, Gadsden, Tennessee
By applying the tools of genomics and biotechnology, we have produced a variety
of cotton that will allow farmers to spray labeled Roundup agricultural herbicides
over their cotton during more of the growing season. Now in the final phase of the
pipeline, Roundup Ready Flex cotton was launched commercially in the United States
in 2006. More than 80 percent of Roundup Ready Flex cotton will be stacked with
our second-generation Bollgard II trait for insect protection. Stacked with Bollgard
II, Roundup Ready Flex cotton was poised for the largest-acre launch of a new biotechnology
product ever. Roundup Ready technology has yielded savings in both time and equipment
costs for Steve Bailey, who has 1,200 acres planted in cotton, 95 percent with stacked
traits.
