This forum is recognised as the main conference for cotton research. The conference consists

of four days of individual reports, panel discussions, hands-on workshops and seminars about

The following Report covers my participation in a series of meetings at

Bremen, Germany, in late March 2006 - including;

20.3.06; CSITC *small technical group' meeting

The Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) has made significant R&D investments in soil health research over recent years.

Travel to the USA to attend the Fusarium 2005 workshop at Kansas State University, and to accompany representatives of the Australian cotton industry on a cotton disease study tour of the USA.

This project has part funded maintenance of HVI900 and FMT3 cotton fibre testing instruments in CSIRO’s fibre testing laboratory at ACRI for the 2005/06 season.

A projects overview 2006 -07 of the Social and Institutional Research Program

Here, we feature the five collaborative industry based programs that Land & Water Australia manages under its Industries Arena.

The results of this study have revealed that the number of freshwater fishes (species diversity) of the King Edward River is higher than has previously been recorded for a Western Australian river.

CRDC's Annual Operating Plan for 2006–07 (AOP): the fourth annual operating plan under the CRDC's Strategic R&D Plan 2003–2008.

Well designed irrigation storages and water courses on cotton farms can aid in the removal of sediment, nutrients and pesticides from irrigation water and enhance their habitat value for native plants and animals.

The overall plan for this Research Fellowship was to read and digest the literature on droughtand aquatic systems and their biota, to produce a report for Land & Water Australia on the major findings from the revi

Information on the 2005 cotton trials at Kununarra and discussion of issues of GM Cotton

BMP Workshop, Addressing the skills shortage, Human resource Management workshop, Birds on cotton farms workshop,

Addresing the Skills shortage, Water use efficiency in the Gwydir, land and Water module workshop

Ecology of Helicoverpa in relation to transgenic cotton and the efficiency of refuge crops Final report

Project CRC109 was a separately funded project with aims to examine the whole ginning process critically and focus on identifying new technology and systems in gin pre-cleaning, ginning itself, lint cleaning and/or ba

Presentations CD from Climate connect conference 2006

CPLM Training courses. Management of a dry storage, New cotton CRC web site

The Tropical Rivers R&D Program is building capacity and understanding so that the best available knowledge can be used to achieve sustainable natural resource management in tropical Australia.

Summarises information about in-stream wetlands and their management, so that woolgrowers can make informed decisions about what to do on their own property.