The cornerstone of most pest management programs world-wide is the "Economic Threshold" concept which is based on the principle of controlling a pest only if it is economically prudent to do so i.e.

There are basically three ways of preventing cotton farm runoff from contaminating the riverine.

Previous research at Narrabri Agricultural Research Station and elsewhere has shown that mite populations increase more slowly on okra leaf cotton genotypes than on normal leaf genotypes (Bailey et al., 1978; Thomson,

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.

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.

Cottongrowers in central Queensland (CQ) enjoy no advantage over southern counterparts in the range of insect pests that attack their crop.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Cotton fibre maturity has several definitions.

Encouraged by a trial 1/2 acre result of 2.8 bales per acre from the 1990 cotton pick, Tandou has grown 70 acres in 1991 and 850 acres in 1992 installing one roller gin to process the 1991 crop and expanding the gin t

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

During the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons planting date experiments were carried out at Narrabri Agricultural Research Station using a range of cotton varieties.

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