Australian cotton is highly regarded amongst the world's cotton spinners for its high quality fibre characteristics, reliability of supply and lack of contamination.

The Early Season Diagnostic (ESD) tool has been developed by the cotton management support systems team based at the Cotton CRC's Technology Resource Centre.

Soil health has been defined as &quote; the capacity of soil to function as a vital living system, within ecosystem and land-use boundaries, to sustain plant and animal productivity, maintain or enhance water and

Our research addresses three questionsI. Is soil biodiversity reduced in agricultural soil compared with undisturbed soilsΓ2. Does cropping affect which groups of fungi are present in agricultural soilsΓ3.

Many beneficial arthropods exhibit life-history omnivory (Polis & Strong 1996), in that they include honeydew, floral nectar, extra-floral nectar and/or pollen in their immature or adult diet (Hagen 1986; Coll