Cotton producers benefit in many ways from the efforts of Cotton Incorporated (CI) and the Cotton Research and Promotion Program. Promoting cotton is easily the most visible component of CI’s work, but the organization’s research program is equally impressive.One aspect of the Cotton Incorporated research effort is the grower-directed State Support Program which relies on cotton growers across the nation to direct the expenditure of CI research dollars toward key production and profitability challenges that they face on the farm.In Texas, research funded through the State Support Program addresses issues such as cotton marketing and economics, cotton breeding, genetic improvement,