Encouraged by a trial 1/2 acre result of 2.8 bales per acre from the 1990 cotton pick, Tandou has grown 70 acres in 1991 and 850 acres in 1992 installing one roller gin to process the 1991 crop and expanding the gin t

This can cover an enormous area because not only does technology intrude into every aspect of growing a crop, by the view of it can change drastically with each different farmer.

Although resistance to insecticides was a well-documented phenomenon, pest control operators have merely switched from less effective insecticides to newer more potent compounds and thereby kept ahead of the resistanc

On many occasions, we saw some parts of our farm, produce this 3 bale yield, but not over a whole field. One corner ,or one side, or a top or bottom end, but not all over.

As a result of a major fall in world cotton prices, the Namoi Cotton Co-operative has been actively looking at ways of reducing costs on cotton farms.