The Environmental Audit of the Australian cotton industry was a bold initiative at a period in time when the industry was under severe pressure from well organised environmental lobby groups.

Nowadays, most of us are aware that natural enemies (parasites and predators) sometimes play an important role in the control of pests attacking our crops.

In surface irrigation systems we use beds rather than growing thee crop on the flat for several reasons.

As a first step in developing a community education program about IPM it was decided to assess the knowledge and perceptions of members of the rural community to the pest management practices.

Most major pollution offences are criminal offences, which result in criminal proceedings against the offender. They are not civil proceedings commenced by another citizen for compensation.

Any agent which reduces damage caused by heliothis is a valuable asset.

Assessment of cotton fiber quality has undergone a significant change during the past several years.

Cotton fibre maturity has several definitions.

HOTEL CONRAD AND JUPITERS CASINO, BROADBEACH, GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND ORGANISED BY THE AUSTRALIAN COTTON GROWERS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INC. (ACGRA

This paper outlines the requirements to effectively operate a Controlled Traffic farming system, with emphasis on the need for some form of automatic steering assistance for farm machinery.

The question is asked - Why grow Pima in A ustraha? There are different answers. The most obvious is the economic consideration, then there is the challenge of doing something new and different.

This paper discusses recent progress with the refinement of promising methods, both direct and indirect, for measuring the severity of compaction in cracking clays used for irrigated cotton.

During the 1991-92 season, a 1 ha block of unsprayed raingrown cotton near Dalby was sampled for parasite activity in heliothis larvae.

Recent research has indicated that two species of native egg parasitoids, Trichogramma (Trichogrammanza) carverae Oatman and Pinto and Trichogrammatoidea bactrae Nagaraja, have potential as biological control agents o

This paper provides an overview of the Cotton Research and Development Corporation project DDI lL, which is in its final year at the University of Southern Queensland.

This paper presents techniques used for rearing egg parasitoids on AGM eggs in an experimental facility at the QDPI Division of Plant Protection entomology laboratories in Toowoomba.

Retained hills are now a well-established management strategy in the Australian Cotton Industry.

There are, few parasitoids which specifically attack the pupal stage. This is perhaps understandable since pupae are not readily accessible, being in the soil.

Obviously, avoiding trafficking wet soil is one means of avoiding soil structural damage. Another is to use a vehicle with lower ground pressure, by using dual tyres, wide tracks, etc.