The Total Catchment Management ("TCM'') philosophy was formalised in NSW in 1980 with the passing of the Catchment Management Act which provides a clear legislative base for the operation of TCM Committ

A research project at the Australian Cotton Research Institute, Narrabri aims at developing biocontrol agents for cotton seedling diseases and Verticillium wilt.

Watertable rises resulting from irrigation are evident in several areas in the Murray Darling Basin, with groundwater level rises of up to 70 cm per year being reported in the Riverina and 50 cm in the Lower Macquarie

At the 1992 Australian Cotton Research Conference, we reported on field trials of a prototype Heliothis ID kit that were held during the 1991-92 growing season (Trowell et al., 1992).

In this article I will chiefly focus on the this problem on soils with adequate levels of soil potassium.

Raingrown cotton is becoming a very important component of the Australian industry: the relative proportion of the crop grown with rain has been increasing over the past ten years.

This is a new project that aims to develop diagnostic molecular probes for the most threatening insecticide resistance mechanisms in Australian H. armigera

In 1994, the Australian cotton farmer must use a wide range of costly chemicals to harvest a profitable crop. These chemicals vary significantly in their degree of hazard. Some chemicals (e.g.

In recent years Cotton Seed Distributors (CSD) have made available a range of CSIRO varieties with different attributes, thus enabling farmers to choose varieties best suited to their particular situation.

Insecticide resistance continues to be a major problem for the cotton grower. It also is the focus of much of the research into the use and management of transgenic plants.

The irrigated cotton industry in Australia has been developed around major river systems to allow water to be pumped to farm storages and then recirculated on farm using flood irrigation techniques.

Attendees at the 1992 Australian Cotton Conference sat in silence as two speakers promoted completely opposite approaches to insect pest management in raingrown cotton.

Resistance to some carbamate insecticides ( methomyl and carbaryl) in H. armigera is has been known since 1983. But at that time no resistance to thiodicarb (also a carbamate) was identified.

In 1992 we started work on an alternative way of detecting pesticide residues, based on the application of medical immunodiagnostic tests.

Rainfed or dryland cotton grown in the 550 to 600 mm. per year rainfall regions of northern N.S.W. and southern Qld. is a profitable summer crop alternative.

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CSD conducts large scale variety trials in all the cotton growing districts each season. It is well known that variety performance often differs markedly from season to season.

Transgenic cottons expressing the crystal protein toxin genes from the bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have progressed to the field testing stage and may soon become part of the Australian cotton production sce

Raingrown cotton requires a considerable financial outlay hence many farmers seek to reduce their exposure or to 'hedge their bets' by planting in skip row configurations.