This is a Cotton Research and Development Corporation funded three year project toconsider the follong areas and address the issues developed below.Aims:To continue and develop the work begun in the existing project w

Controlling heliothine caterpillars presents an ever greater challenge for the Australian cotton industry.

The imminent release of transgenic cotton brings with it the need for some changes in production techniques to provide effective refuges as part of the pre-emptive resistance management strategy (see papers by Fitt an

In Australia the primary pesticide for control of heliothis in cotton is the organochlorine endosulfan.

Crop monoculture frequently causes a build up of weeds, diseases, insects and soil fertility problems.

Total dependence on broad spectrum insecticides led to nerve insensitivity resistance in Helicoverpa armigera and, eventually, to the collapse of the previously successful cotton industry at Kununurra in 1974.

This talk is heavily dependant on slides, so the following 1s really only a &quote;background&quote; paper.

The introduction of transgenic cotton expressing the CrylAc insecticidal crystal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is expected to provide the basis for pest management in cotton in the near future and to reduce

To grow in this environment, an environment in which external forces have traditionally driven and shaped the agenda, the Industry needs leaders who have the knowledge skills and networks to address the important issu

The Agricultural Engineering Research Unit, based at Trangie ARC, undertook a research program to ensure an even and adequate (but not excessive) supply of NH3 to the crop in conditions which allow full utilisation by

The cotton whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a serious pest of fibre and horticultural and ornamental crops worldwide.

ACF simply contends that far too much water has been taken from the Murray Darling for irrigation and that insufficient water is left to manage in ways which meet the ecological needs of the rivers and their floodplai

Farmers have probably always realised that soil is alive. Good soil seems to have certain intangible qualities, over and above its physical structure and chemistry. There is something special about topsoil.

With the imminent release of cotton varieties expressing the n\IGARD gene to control Helicoverpa the time has come to consider in detail the elements of the proposed resistance management plan for transgenic cotton.

This project sets out to address some of the problems associated with growing dryland cotton using reduced and notillage practices, and look for possible solutions which will allow cotton to be integrated into sustain

Australian cotton production areas are prone to significant damage by hail storms. Following a hail strike, a grower is left with trying to make the most out of what remains of his crop.

Biopesticides based on Heliothis nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV), one of the Baculovims group, are notable for their potency, specificity and safety.

Green mind, Creontiades dilitus (Stal), is an important sporadic pest of cotton at the seedling stage and through early squaring.

The DLWC (Department of Land and Water Conservation) has operated the Central and North West Regions Water Quality Program for the past 5 seasons in the Namoi,Gwydir, Macquarie and Border Rivers catchments.

The Australian cotton industry is heavily dependent on the use of chemical insecticides and herbicides.