In July 1994 the International Society of Soil Science held its 15th Congress in Acapulco, Mexico. Approximately 1800 ISSS members from almost 90 nations attended.

The aim of this book is to help cotton growers, field consultants and agronomists correctly identify the wide range of pests and beneficials that can be found in the crops they manage.

Capacity Sharing is an institutional arrangement and property rights structure for allocating water among multiple users of water resource systems which include storage reservoirs.

This project has supported a wide range of cotton programs based at Narrabri covering all CRDC funded projects during this period.

Project Objective: To provide the basis for improved crop and soil management in dryland cotton production systems by: 1. monitoring on-farm performance of cotton-based dryland cropping systems; 2.

In Australia, management of cotton pests is insecticide based.

The aims of this trip were to initiate research on HaSV RNA designed to improve our ability to express insect viral genes in transgenic cotton, and to attend two important conferences relevant to the long-term biologi

Aim of Travel: To participate in the Vlth International Co11oquium on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control. The Colloquium also incorporated the Second International Conference on Bacillus thuringiensis

A growth disorder of cotton has been observed in irrigated cracking clay soils in fields at Galathera Creek, north of the Australian Cotton Research Institute (ACRI) for several years.

From this visit I gained: 1. A good overview of the state of agricultural soil mechanics worldwide. I was struck by the lack of direction and novelty in some of the work in this field.

The objective of this study was to examine the distribution of tyre imposed stresses, soil displacements and soil mechanical properties as function of the soil surface geometry.

With CRDC permission, the travel award was transferred from Dr Skerritt to Ms A Hill, the diagnostics project leader; there was, however, not a change in itinerary.

The inaugural Australian Rural Leadership Program was conducted during 1993 and 1994.The rationale for this innovative concept was to form a strong bond between the 30participants, enrich their leadership capabilities

Objectives of visit: To attend the 13th Conference of the International Soil Tillage Research Organization (ISTRO) and present paper entitled "Effect of soil preparation method and cotton-based cropping system on

The comparative advantage1 of cotton production was examined for three production systems in the United States and four production systems within Australia.

Field experiments at Narrabri in 1993, 1994 and 1995 have utilised overhead sprinklers and, portable rain-out shelters.

A paper was presented at the fourth international Trichogramma and other egg parasitoid conference titled 'Evaluating egg parasitoids for integrated pest management in Australian raingrown cotton.' Highlight

Two fields of cotton on two nearby farms in the Macquarie Valley of NSW which had different histories of weed management were studied to determine if weed seeds were being introduced via irrigation water.

This report arises from a scoping brief presented to the author on 19th May 1995.

Frontiers of Population Ecology Meeting program and abstracts