To highlight the importance of maintaining and enhancing riparian and aquatic biodiversity on cotton farms, it is proposed that a field guide entitled Fishes on Cotton Farms be produced for the north-west NSW region.

A review is currently being undertaken by the Cotton Catchment Communities CRC of the BMP program so that it focuses on a more whole of farm business rather than on cotton alone.

During this pilot study 20 water quality test kits were distributed across the industry, including properties growing crops other than cotton.

The presence of an active interaction between plants and microbiological life in soil has been accepted for many years.

Fusarium oxysporum f.sp vasinfectum (FOV) has merged as a very serious pathogen of cotton, which apparently lacks good sources of endogenous resistance to Fusarium wilt.

Water remains a key issue for the cotton industry, with improving water use efficiency a priority. Relatively water research has focussed on the plant and its interaction with the soil and climate.

Soil nutrients, in particular phosphorus (P) and potassium (K), are being depleted in the clay soils supporting the grains and cotton industries of northern NSW and Queensland, especially in the deeper layers of the s

The Australian Government’s investment in Firestarter’s One Life, One World, Our Future - Education for Sustainability Program in developing this Icon Project has created hundreds of regional and state partnerships be

Advances in our knowledge of the genes expressed in cotton fibres make biotechnology a viable means to improve fibre characteristics.

Due to the ongoing drought throughout the cotton growing regions there has been a decline in both investment dollars and human resources.

It was demonstrated that varying irrigation deficits, if linked to measures of plant stress, will improve cotton yield and WUE.

Participation in the cotton industry to facilitate the adoption of IPM Facilitating the adoption of IPM through providing support to industry has been the key focus of this project.

It has been accepted for many years that there is an interaction between plants

and the microbiological life that exists in soil. This interaction is particularly

Increases in crop water use efficiency have been found achieved through greater precision in

irrigation scheduling and the use of irrigated crop management strategies such as regulated deficit and

Two ambitious objectives were set out for this project.

Water remains a key issue for the cotton industry, with improving water use

Regional Cotton Extension Officer positions are part of the cotton programme carried out by the Industry Services Business Group - South Region Unit and Plant Science Units of Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheri

The low responsiveness of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) to phosphorus (P) fertilizers in the field where soils have low soil test values for P, suggests that cotton is capable of utilizing soil P pools that are less

The Rural Water Use Efficiency Initiative ran from July1999 to June 2003.

Reflections of Mark Mortons person journey and discovery as a participant on the 2009 Australian Rural Leadership Program. Questions and challenges for the industries leaders are a major focus.