The cotton industry relies on GM cotton expressing insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). This provides resistance to key pests of cotton, the bollworm Helicoverpa armigera and the native budworm H.

Solenopsis mealybug is an emerging pest of cotton in Australia.

The Back Paddock Company has become one of the leading soil nutrition consultants in the cotton industry.

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) has undertaken research, within its Cotton Industry Workforce Development Project, into defining cotton agribusiness sector (resellers, suppliers of goods and service

Cotton growers and consultants are becoming concerned with the level of

compaction in soils in the Gwydir. The feeling is that compaction is increasing due