Bayer’s Southeast Cotton Breeding Station opens in Dawson

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October 20, 2016

Cotton has a $3 billion impact on the Georgia economy, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson says. Senators and representatives are asking the president to extend a 2015 program that they say is vital to stabilize the U.S. cotton industry. (Albany Herald File Photo)

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While this week’s annual Sunbelt Ag Expo certainly grabbed a lot of focus from the nation’s agricultural community, several farmers across Southwest Georgia, and the Southeastern United States, had their eyes on Terrell County as one of the cotton industry’s biggest players opened the doors to its new, state-of-the-art cotton breeding station Thursday.

Nino Brown, a junior cotton breeder with Bayer Corp.’s new Southeast Cotton Breeding Station in Dawson, explains some of the processes the breeding station uses during its evaluation of new cotton varieties. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

Georgia’s cotton-growing industry is expecting a significant boost thanks to the new Southeast Cotton Breeding Station Bayer Corp. opened in Terrell County Thursday. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

Nino Brown, a junior cotton breeder at the new Bayer Corp. breeding station outside of Dawson, explains some of the particulars of the research facility’s table top gins and accompanying dust filtration during a grand open tour of the station Thursday. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

A group of invitees enters the research building at Bayer Corp.’s new Southeast Cotton Breeding Station in Terrell County during a tour of the facility during its grand opening Thursday. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

Nino Brown, a junior cotton breeder at Bayer Corp.’s new Southeast Cotton Breeding Station in Terrell County, demonstrates one of the facility’s state-of-the-art machines during a tour he gave to interested parties during Thursday’s grand opening. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)

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