Planting time is approaching rapidly for farmers, making it necessary to start making some expensive decisions regarding seed varieties. When making decisions about planting choices the more informed you are the better off you are. In the past few weeks there has been multiple seed company meetings put on by competing companies in the industry. These meetings have offered useful information about new seed varieties that are hitting the market this year, what the characteristics and traits are of the respective new variety and where they will work best. Many of these meetings highlight successful results from growers that planted their variety the previous year. They also utilize data collected from the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Replicated Agronomic Cotton Evaluation (RACE) trials conducted across the Rolling Plains each year. Each year these trials are conducted to provide an unbiased view of how competing varieties fare for our specific area. Results from trials conducted in Vernon, Quanah, Wellington, Haskell, Munday and Seymour in 2014 are available to assist you in making variety selection decisions. Having the results from trials across the area is useful in comparing how each variety does based on rainfall totals for the particular area and soil types. While one variety may have won a certain location it is important to take into consideration the growing conditions it received relative to other locations and how it performed in them. This report is available at the Extension Office or through email. If you’d like to be placed on my email list to receive updates call the Extension Office at (806)