Our work focused on selecting a 'baseline' set of socio-economic indicators that could be used to track the economic and social condition of cotton communities over the life of the CRC and beyond.

Fibre quality is an important consideration for Australian cotton farm profitability and industry credibility in the world marketplace.

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Bollgard II and selective insecticides have dramatically increased the opportunity for adopting integrated pest management (IPM) in the Australian cotton system.

Cotton aphid, Aphis. gossypii is a major pest of Australian cotton due to an ability to develop resistance to the carbamate insecticide Pirimor and organophosphates generally.

Indonesia has a large spinning capacity of about 7.5 million spindles. About 45-50% of the spindles are on cotton and cotton blends.

In the 1996/97 season the Australian industry adopted an insect-resistant variety of cotton (INGARD) that is specific to the group of insects including the target pests Helicoverpa armigera and H.

We determined the efficacy of direct applications of a range of concentrations between 1% and 10% of an nC24 petroleum spray oil (PSO) (Sacoa, Biopest) for use against the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii.

The critical period for weed control is a concept designed to optimise weed management and herbicide use in systems reliant on post emergent herbicides for weed control and is particularly useful in systems into which

The Australian Cotton Industry has been lauded as one of the success stories of Australian agriculture, noted for its technical innovation and its ability to recognise the challenges that confront it and establishing

This research scopes the current state of play of natural resource governance in the cotton industry in order to formulate sound parameters for a larger research proposal.

Good natural resource management does not have to involve a great deal of extra work and time it should be incorporated into the overall management of the property. This is the philosophy of Richard and Julie Dowse.

Changes to Bollgard Resistance Management

Projects featured in this booklet highlight the diversity of the research commissioned by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation and the practical outcomes they offer for irrigation sustainability and product

Work commissioned by NPSI and undertaken by Matthew Hipsey from the University of Western Australia shows that night time evaporation is significant.

Over recent decades the extractive use of water in Australia has dramatically increased, leading to greater agricultural production and, in many instances, to the degradation of riverine ecosystems, loss of productive

The 'Ready Reckoner' is a model which performs a simple, site-specific economic assessment of the viability of evaporation mitigation systems.

After major rains and flooding in 1999 left some of their best-producing paddocks susceptible to dryland salinity, Bonnie Rock farmers Phil and Caroline Smith began thinking about how to get the affected land back to

This report documents the numerical analysis performed for the Land and Water Australia (LWA) National Program for Sustainable Irrigation project.

For this analysis the 1 D hydrodynamic model DYRESM was used to simulate 10 idealised dams ranging in geographic (and climatic) location and morphometry DYRESM was used to simulate the water balance and thermal struct