Cottongrowers in central Queensland (CQ) enjoy no advantage over southern counterparts in the range of insect pests that attack their crop.

It has been 9 years now since the introduction of the Summer Crop Resistance Management Strategy in 1983/84 season.

The Cotton Research and Development corporation (CRDC) is funding a comprehensive 3-year project to discover the environmental fate of endosulfan sprayed on cotton for insect control.

This paper looks at some of the differences between raingrown and irrigated cotton in Central Queensland, in particular: differences in basic inputs and differences between major problem areas.

Raingrown cotton in Northwest NSW and Southwest Queensland is not grown on metre beds, rarely has aerial applications, relies to a large extent on stored water, uses little or no fertiliser and large areas are harvest