In Bollgard® II cotton 2-5 sprays are required to manage mirid and stinkbugs every season.

The Australian cotton industry is a regional based market focused industry generating in excess of $1 billion of export revenue.

Conyza bonariensis (L.) Cronquist, flaxleaf fleabane, originating from South America, is a

major emerging weed threat for dry-land cropping systems in Australia. Conyza bonariensis

An open hydroponics system aims to increase productivity by high frequency application of irrigation water and nutrients to the soil. Such a system is sometimes also called advanced fertigation.

Water management in the cotton industry has continued to be of fundamental importance to sustainability and production.

The Australian cotton industry places a large emphasis on IPM. To boost IPM further, along with plant based threshold and monitoring procedures, IPM tools are needed.

The Australian cotton industry generates, on average, over $1.5billion per year in export revenue. About 80 per cent of cotton farms are irrigated and the farms are generally mixed enterprise operations.

In 2006, Tobacco streak virus (TSV) was identified as the causal agent of the devastating sunflower necrosis disease in central Queensland (CQ), and subsequently in 2007 as the cause of major losses in mungbeans in th

Industrlal trials as part of CRC Project No. 4.03.03 showed cotton through the MLC with a

combing ratio of 19 had 0.02 inches or 0.53 rum more length in terms of UHML (a 2%

Deep drainage below the root zone is still the least understood component of the water balance, especially in cracking clay soils.

Novel approaches to irrigation scheduling are becoming critically important as water resources in the Basin come under increased scrutiny.

Industrial trials as part of CRC Project No.

Final Report for Project 1.01.34

Developed as part of the ‘Promoting Science and Agriculture in schools’ project, it was recognised that there was an opportunity to more actively involve students that study textile and design.

myBMP Overview: website operational 2010. A power point presentation on myBMP tools, website and resources with technical assistance contacts.

The topic of this travel fellowship was the water-energy-emissions nexus in irrigated agriculture.

Irrigated vineyards in Australia have seen extensive adoption of drip irrigation. At the start of this project there was concern about the sustainability of drip irrigation based on previous field observations.

Travel to the USDA Kika De La Garcia Agricultural Research Centre at Weslaco in South

West Texas. This is an area of mixed cropping that includes cotton, sugarcane, soybean, corn,

Even though the cotton industry is relatively successful, it continually faces a range of critical issues from drought and water supply; yield and profitability; fibre quality and export price; nutrition; sustainabili

Investigation allowing for means of better processing long fine Australian cotton and further

improving ginning efficiency was accomplished. Research was conducted in New South