Australian cotton fibre is exported into a dynamic and competitive market and we need to ensure an ever-improving product to meet the demand from spinners.

Many insect natural enemies are omnivorous, in that they include extra-floral nectar, floral nectar, honeydew and pollen, as well their insect prey in their diet for at least part of their life.

Every incident of spray drift that has occurred in our cotton growing areas has one common factor - an error in the judgment made by the applicator.

A raising of the quality base and increasing levels of discounts impact significantly on the profitability of dryland cotton.

The last 23 years has involved both major change and subtle fine tuning of strategies taken by the Australian Cotton Industry in managing insecticide resistance in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera.

In keeping with the cotton industry's mantra of "Concentrate on the things you can change and forget about the rest", I will outline the important parameters you can alter during design to optimize the

Any way you want to look at it, farm costs are up. I can't think of any input to our operation that hasn't risen in the last few years, some a little, others a lot.

Targeting the last generation of Helicoverpa armigera that typically escape cotton fields prior to pupae busting with the use of summer trap crops has been an integral component of the central Queensland Bt resistance

The Australian Cotton Industry has been lauded as one of the success stories of Australian agriculture, noted for its technical innovation and its ability to recognise the challenges that confront it and establishing

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the soil biology and what we know about its role within the cotton production system.

In 2005/06 the Australian cotton industry clocked up its 10th season of commercial insect tolerant Bt cotton production (i.e.

The survey was a pilot study as a precursor for an industry wide survey to be conducted in the coming season. Below are the results of the study.

This paper summarises the findings of a scoping study into the coordination of natural resource management (NRM) policy in the cotton industry, an industry which leads voluntarist environmentally adaptive farming syst

The privilege to use gene technology bears responsibilities and rewards. Rewards come in many forms, including reduced chemical applications, improved integrated pest management, and life style advantages.

Crop and weed sensing technology has existed as a research tool in Australia since 1984. The concept was originally developed by researcher Warwick Felton at the DPI Tamworth.

In Australia, problems with mirids, Creontiades spp. have increased substantially following the adoption of Bollgard II.

This paper describes a method that can be used by individual cotton growers and/or cotton consultants to estimate the potential deep drainage.

To understand the trends in picking capacity for the Australian crop we must first quickly look at some historical data to understand what are the factors and influences that have shaped the demand for services to the

Research, Development and Extension funding, has traditionally utilised the extension arm (Cotton Industry Development Officers) within the industry to deliver and be responsible for both extension and training activi

Here we report on the on-going investigation into mirid damage assessment in Bollgard II with the objective to determine action thresholds for mirids at different stages of Bollgard II growth in irrigated and raingrow