Degree days are commonly used by industry and researchers to estimate expected crop development. This assumes that cotton's potential development is largely a function of temperature.

Determining the level of insect infestation which causes economic damage (yield loss or significant crop maturity delays), is no simple task.

In the late 1980s, growing concern over the impact of irrigated agriculture on the surface and ground waters of NSW, lead the Department of Land and Water Conservation (DLWC), to conduct a water quality monitoring pro

Despite the great potential for increasing cotton productivity through the genetic engineering of fibre development, little progress has so far been made in this area.

Conventional plant breeding has done much to improve cotton's tolerance to pests and diseases.

The Australian cotton industry has been practising curative conventional insecticide resistance management and preventative Bt transgenic cotton resistance management for fifteen and two years now, respectively.

Heliothis armigera has been a growing problem for many years, While the cotton producers have borne the brunt of it, reports of increasing damage to crops such as pulses, sorghum an maize have become more frequent.

Precision Agriculture (PA) involves the management of sites or regions within a field based on local requirements rather than field average requirements.

Verticillium wilt and Fusarium wilt, vascular diseases caused by the soil-borne fungal pathogens Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporumf.sp vasinfectum, respectively, are among the most important diseases of cott

As low densities of heliothis may survive on Bt transgenic plants late in the season, a specific late season control for heliothis is valuable to reduce the survival of individuals resistant to Bt toxin.

Microbial damage to raw cotton, sometimes referred to as weathering damage, is a common event in most parts of the world. Microbes, viz. bacteria and fungi, are omnipresent in the environment.

Most crop plants suffer a decline in growth when exposed to saline conditions although cotton is classified as a salt-tolerant crop.

In his paper to you, Mike Logan, our youngest Cotton Australia Board Director, said to you, &quote;unless we have the support of the local communities, we are doomed to extinction&quote;.

In cotton, phosphorus (P) is important for early seedling vigour, plant establishment and root development.

We compared the responses of dryland and irrigated cotton to damage caused by two spotted spider mites in a field experiment at Narrabri. Mites colonies developed at similar rates in irrigated and dryland crops.

Transgenic Bt (Ingard) cotton has been the biggest step achieved so farm reducing insecticide applications to cotton in Australia.

Many growers show little or no interest in their cotton once it leaves the farm gate.

Microplitis demolitor (Wilkinson) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is a critical component of IPM in Australian cotton.

Good average irrigated yields have been achieved on the Darling Downs by most growers this season while dryland crops on average did not fare so well due to the unseasonal hot dry conditions.

Tractors and harvesters that steer themselves would have sounded like science fiction 10 years ago, yet today there are several systems which can effectively guide machinery.