This paper discusses recent progress with the refinement of promising methods, both direct and indirect, for measuring the severity of compaction in cracking clays used for irrigated cotton.

Previous research at Narrabri Agricultural Research Station and elsewhere has shown that mite populations increase more slowly on okra leaf cotton genotypes than on normal leaf genotypes (Bailey et al., 1978; Thomson,

The Environmental Audit of the Australian cotton industry was a bold initiative at a period in time when the industry was under severe pressure from well organised environmental lobby groups.

This paper outlines the requirements to effectively operate a Controlled Traffic farming system, with emphasis on the need for some form of automatic steering assistance for farm machinery.

Cottongrowers in central Queensland (CQ) enjoy no advantage over southern counterparts in the range of insect pests that attack their crop.

As a first step in developing a community education program about IPM it was decided to assess the knowledge and perceptions of members of the rural community to the pest management practices.

Nowadays, most of us are aware that natural enemies (parasites and predators) sometimes play an important role in the control of pests attacking our crops.

Most major pollution offences are criminal offences, which result in criminal proceedings against the offender. They are not civil proceedings commenced by another citizen for compensation.

Any agent which reduces damage caused by heliothis is a valuable asset.

Assessment of cotton fiber quality has undergone a significant change during the past several years.

Cotton fibre maturity has several definitions.

Funds tor Ivan Kennedy and steven Kimber to attend Australian cotton conference 1992

Dr Daly attended the Fifth Cotton Conference, Broadbeach, Queensland, 12-14 August, 1992. She authored two papers for inclusion in the Proceedings: Daly, J. 5ndosulfan resiS1ance in Helicoverpa armgera, pp 353-368.

Travel to cotton conference Karyl-Lee West, Lindsay Campbell

I have been in Australia to attend 'the 1992 Australian Cotton Conference' in Qld and to visit the Cottonseed Mill of Cargill Oilseed at Narrabri , last August.

A Magellan Nav pro 5000 receiver and external antenna kit was bought and tested. The unit has recorded the locations of soil pit and disease sampling sites.

The project was intended to collect germplasm of two of the wild relatives of cotton, Gossypium australe and G. sturtianum from eastern Australia, and to initiate a seed bank of these species.,

CRDC project UNE15C provided for travel to Perth for The International Symposium on the Management of mycorrhizas in Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry.

This report presents the findings and recommendations arising from a review of dryland salinity R&D commissioned by a consortium of the three agencies responsible for most of the Commonwealth funding support for d

The objective of the present research is to see whether altering the level of the enzyme ADH will affect the tolerance of cotton to anaerobic or waterlogged conditions.