Hands-on training in soil management was given to one hundred & seventy members of the Australian cotton industry at a series of 11 courses between October 1997 and September 1999. The main aim of the courses was to demonstrate how to use 'SOILpak for Cotton Growers, Third Edition. They were held in the Narrabri, Warren, Moree, Emerald, Dalby, Wee Waa, Goondiwindi, Gunnedah, Theodore, Walgett and Bourke districts.