Resistance to poses a threat to the continued sustainable production of cotton that transgenic agriculture has enabled.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Insects can respond to selection pressure by mobilising new defence mechanisms.

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.

Deep drainage(DD) - water that passes beyond the - is an important process in irrigated cropping soils to ensure leaching of salts through the soil profile to deeper soil layers, the vadose zone ( the zone between the

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.

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

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

Since the introduction of Bt-cotton secondary pests such as aphids, mites and bugs have become more prominent requiring targeted insecticide control.

If Australia is to maintain its reputation as a consistent supplier of high quality cotton it

will need to ensure that the entire cotton pipeline from growing to ginning and from

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,

) used to support pesticide management decisions at the catchment-scale can deliver environmental protection while retaining farm production benefits.

Refuge crops are used in the cotton industry to dampen the expression of resistance in Helicoverpa moths, and are an integral part in the use of transgenic cotton varieties; as such it is important to confirm refuge a

This report builds on the first four stages of the study, Exploring the Relationship Between Community Resilience & Irrigated Agriculture in the MDB,1 to address the following research questions: