2013 CottonBreeders Tour

Sponsored by Cotton Incorporated
September 15 - 18 , 2013
Lubbock, Texas USA

Registration is required by Friday, August 16
Hotel Reservation Overton Hotel & Conference Center, 2322 MacDavis Lane, Lubbock, TX 79401

Tentative Agenda

Sunday, September 15 -Travel day arrive Lubbock
4:00pm Multi-State Regional Project Meeting - Overton Hotel & Conference Center
Monday, September 16
8:15am Texas A&M AgriLIFE Research and Extension Center
Presentations by:
Plains Cotton Growers and
Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative
Greenhouse and Field Visit Tours
1:30pm Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute
Fiber Seminar; Material Evaluation and Spinning Lab Tours
4pm Phytogen Tour
Tuesday, September 17
8:30am USDA-ARS, Texas Tech University
1:30pm All-Tex, Americot
3:00pm Tour Cottonseed Processing Industry (PYCO or PCOM)
4:30pm American Museum of Agriculture
Wednesday, September 18
8:30am Bayer Crop Science
10:00am USDA Ginning Laboratory
1:30pm Texas A&M AgriLife - Halfway
4:00pm Monsanto

Private industry stops may include visits to Americot, All-Tex, Bayer CropScience, PCOM, PYCO, Phytogen, and Monsanto.