Water for irrigation is the limiting resource for cotton production in Australia.

Airborne volatiles emitted by flowers and other vegetative plant parts that attract insects for feeding and egg-laying could be useful in pest management.

Trichogramma pretiosum Riley is an important parasitoid of heliothis (Helicoverpa spp.) eggs throughout the Darling Downs.

Petroleum spray oils (PSOs) have been used for many decades to control a wide range of crop pests (Beattie et al 1995) and are known to have little impact on natural enemies of crop pests (Mensah et al 1995).

The Early Season Diagnostic (ESD) tool has been developed by the cotton management support systems team based at the Cotton CRC's Technology Resource Centre.

In June this year, I spent three days in a light aircraft traversing what seemed like the length of the country, looking at cotton farms and meeting with the people who are making their living out of these enterprises

Sicot F-1 is a new cotton variety released in 2004. It has been developed specifically in response to the appearance of a new unique strain of the Fusarium wilt pathogen in Australia.

The 2003 - 04 season heralded the first full commercialisation of cotton varieties in Australia with the Bollgard II gene from Monsanto.

Petroleum spray oils (PSOs) are now an essential part of many integrated pest management (IPM) programs in agricultural crops (Beattie et al. 1995; Mensah et al. 1995).

Macintyre Downs is a 3500 hectare irrigation property along 15km of the northern side the Macintyre River, bordering NSW, west of Goondiwindi.

Cotton fibre quality is attracting more attention as Growers are receiving increased feedback from end users that if Australia is to maintain its position as a world leader in machine picked cotton it must minimise po

Nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV) and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are the most commonly used biopesticides for the control of Helicoverpa spp. larvae on cotton crops in Australia.

Making the transition from theory to field practices, that reflect an IPM system is not simply the changing a management operation.

Australian cotton is highly regarded amongst the world's cotton spinners for its high quality fibre characteristics, reliability of supply and lack of contamination.

Integrated pest management (IPM) is currently the most acceptable approach to pest control in the Australian Cotton Industry.

The introduction of Roundup Ready@ cotton and the future release of other herbicide tolerant cotton varieties will allow more flexible weed management with greater emphasis on postemergence herbicides for weed control

Parkes Agricultural Consultancy Pty Ltd was employed by Sundown Pastoral Company Pty Ltd to manage the farming enterprises at &quote;Keytah&quote; 38 kilometres west of Moree in July of 1997.

The main weeds and effectiveness of weed management practices used in dryland cotton cropping systems were identified using information collected in a postal and a field survey in southern Queensland and northern New

Cotton growers need to make weather or climate related management decision all the time.

Economic losses and costs associated with weeds in dryland cotton production are important for growers, weeds researchers, and rural industry funding bodies when making decisions about research priorities and research