The most outstanding features of recent seasons have been the relatively dry conditions experienced in most areas during growth and boll setting followed by unprecedently wet harvests.

Small parasitic wasps, scientifically known as Trichogramma, are used as biological control agents of moth pests in overseas countries, thereby reducing the need to use insecticides.

A disease can only occur when a virulent pathogen contacts a susceptible host under favourable environmental conditions. The incidence and severity of a disease reflects the occurence of these three factors.

The Australian Field Crops Resistance Management Strategy has been in place now for 7 seasons.

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between the roots of plants and fungi. They come into existence when the plant's root system becomes infected with an appropriate fungus.

A complex of pests attacks the Australian cotton crop, none more important than the cotton bollworm, Heliothis armigera. and insecticides are considered necessary for its control. H.

A problem involving leaf death and fall before all bolls are adequately developed, has occurred in cotton growing areas for some years. Early reports of this date back to at least 1981.

Last year I spent several months at Rothamsted Experimental Station in the U.K., as a Churchill Fellow, studying biochemical toxicology in H.

Establishing a satisfactory stand of cotton is a continuing problem for many growers. Even when the crop is not planted 'too early in terms of the 9: 00 soil temperature there is still a risk involved .

In my paper on the fundamentals of Classing I would like to outline both the traditional style classing and the modern high volume instrument classing.

During the 1988/89 cotton season trials were conducted to evaluate the potential of synthetic pheromones to control the pink -spotted boll worm, Pectinophora scutigera, by mating disruption

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The past season has been 11 abnormal 11 - how do we define a 11 normal" one? - but abnormal in the sense that significant shifts in trading patterns have occurred.

For a long time, pest control In the cotton industry has depended on a narrow range of broad-spectrum insecticides.

When it comes to varieties 1 don't believe that the growers needs will ever be totally met, we are always looking for improvement in varieties to satisfy, not only the ever tightening cost-return squeeze, but we

As most cotton is exported the cotton industry has a high exposure to exchange rate fluctuations.

It is already well established that sprays containing the ultra-safe pesticide azadirachtin are very effective in reducing egg-laying Heliothis spp. in cotton in the field