Drought Relief Program West Texas

2010 Drought Relief Program - West Texas
West Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico ONLY

For those in East Texas please click here

Reduce the risk from drought on your cotton acres.

Download the Drought Relief Program Flier
For further details on any of these programs and requirements, please contact your local dealer, a Monsanto representative or by contacting the Customer Service Center at 800-511-SEED (7333).

Program Benefits:

  • Maximize potential of your cotton acres while significantly reducing risk
  • Take advantage of outstanding Deltapine® genetics and the latest technology
  • Minimize loss from seed investment on drought-affected acres

Deltapine® Seed

Here's how the program works:

If, due to drought, you harvest less than 150 pounds of lint per acre, you will receive credit for 50% of the seed planted on the affected low-production acres.

Eligible products:

Final planted Deltapine® cotton seed, which contains Monsanto technology.

Farmer reimbursement:

50% of suggested retail price of Deltapine® cotton seed.

Technology Costs

Qualified farmers are eligible to receive a refund of 100% of the published cotton technology fee when a crop is lost or yields less than 150 pounds of lint per land acre due to drought. See Roundup Rewards® brochure for details on how to qualify for technology reimbursement due to drought.

Qualifying Counties

Andrews, Archer, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Brewster, Briscoe, Brown, Callahan, Carson, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collingsworth, Comanche, Concho, Cottle, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Culberson, Dallam, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Donley, Eastland, Ector, El Paso, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Gaines, Garza, Glasscock, Gray, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Haskell, Hemphill, Hockley, Howard, Hudspeth, Hutchinson, Irion, Jeff Davis, Jones, Kent, King, Knox, Lamb, Lipscomb, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, McCulloch, Midland, Mills, Mitchell, Moore, Motley, Nolan, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Pecos, Potter, Presidio, Randall, Reagan, Reeves, Roberts, Runnels, San Saba, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackleford, Sherman, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Tom Green, Upton, Ward, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Winkler, Yoakum and Young

Offer Conditions

  • The deadline to submit a final claim under this program is January 14, 2011.
  • Limited to acres of Deltapine® cotton purchased and planted in 2010 and which contains Monsanto cotton technology.
  • If due to drought, you harvest less than 150 pounds of lint/acre, your seed dealer will be credited for 50% of the units used to plant the acres that produced less than 150 pounds of lint/acre. (For the purposes of this program, an acre is defined as 43,560 contiguous square feet of land area.)
  • Claim value will be for SEED only. Check will be issued in the name of dealer and farmer. Technology cost may be available via the Monsanto Cotton Traits Drought Relief Program.
  • You are responsible for determining if technology or seed treatment refunds are available from their respective manufacturers.
  • You must notify Monsanto of potential claim fields acreage prior to harvest or by October 1, 2010 (whichever is earlier). Monsanto reserves the right to inspect all claimed acres while the crop is still in the field and further reserves the right to reject without settlement all claims for which potential claim notification was not received by October 1, 2010.
  • Claims must include your Monsanto Technology Agreement number and proof-of-purchase of the Deltapine cotton seed used to plant the claimed acres
  • Claims must include Federal Crop Insurance documentation, which verifies drought as the reason for the claimed acres yielding less than 150 pounds of lint/acre. Acres not harvested, or that experience yield reductions attributable to wind, hail, flood, disease, pests or any other reason(s) are not eligible for settlement under this program.
  • Final claims may only be submitted by a Monsanto representative. Claim forms and all supporting documentation MUST be submitted using the same name and Monsanto Technology Agreement number as when the seed was purchased.
  • This program covers only the final planting of the 2010 season.
  • Payment is contingent upon approved claim and corresponding sales reported

Process for claims:

  • Contact your local dealer to verify acres lost to drought.
  • Dealer contacts the local Monsanto sales representative for complete details on claim procedures.
  • Dealer or Monsanto sales representative investigates and verifies the farmer's crop claim.
  • Monsanto sales representative will complete claim.
  • Settlement for seed will be issued via a check made out in the name of dealer and farmer and mailed to the dealer.