The cotton industry and other investors have spent millions of dollars on ‘water balance’

related research over the past two decades. While soil water balance models can be used

Worldwide, virus diseases, especially Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) cause serious economic losses to cotton production.

Precision irrigation is still in its infancy both in Australia and internationally.

Deep drainage below the root zone is still the least understood component of the water balance, especially in cracking clay soils.

Conyza bonariensis (L.) Cronquist, flaxleaf fleabane, originating from South America, is a

major emerging weed threat for dry-land cropping systems in Australia. Conyza bonariensis