Australia maintains its freedom from many serious plant pests by devoting considerable resources to plant biosecurity. It’s a status that, while often taken for granted, benefits all Australians.

Weeds are a significant threat to all farming systems in NSW.

National Plant Biosecurity RD&E Strategy

• Endorsed by PIMC December 2013

• Implementation Committee formed August 2014

• Cross sectorial strategy so no direct RDC to report to

In this edition of the CottonInfo enews, we bring you two of the key things you need to know from the Guide: the herbicide and insecticide resistance management strategies.

Growers with cotton in their rotations achieve higher returns over the rotation cycle, compared with growers with solely grainbased rotations.