A 20 saw gin was bought for $13,000 from the USA. It was installed and fitted with a motor in time to be used in the 1991 harvest It operated satisfactorily throughout the 1991 season.

Aims 1. Promote awareness of the importance of soil management 2. Collate existing research results and practical knowledge of the management of irrigated cracking clays. 3.

Aims: *Use data which relates mite numbers to yield loss in order to derive and test action thresholds.

In my paper on the fundamentals of Classing I would like to outline both the traditional style classing and the modern high volume instrument classing.

During the 1988/89 cotton season trials were conducted to evaluate the potential of synthetic pheromones to control the pink -spotted boll worm, Pectinophora scutigera, by mating disruption

The past season has been 11 abnormal 11 - how do we define a 11 normal" one? - but abnormal in the sense that significant shifts in trading patterns have occurred.

For a long time, pest control In the cotton industry has depended on a narrow range of broad-spectrum insecticides.

As most cotton is exported the cotton industry has a high exposure to exchange rate fluctuations.

It is already well established that sprays containing the ultra-safe pesticide azadirachtin are very effective in reducing egg-laying Heliothis spp. in cotton in the field

The SOILpak project so far has concentrated on the grey and brown cracking clay soils used for cotton production.

The aim of this project was to develop a mass screening technique for the selection of cotton plant antibiosis resistance (AR) to H. armigera.

Many cotton growers are asking Why can't Australian cotton mills spin more cotton?" Many hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton are imported into Australia as finished yarns and fabrics - why can't th

This paper summarises a large number of strength and compression tests in a range of cotton soils.

The aim of the present work was to assess if the fatty acid profiles of moths are useful in establishing different larval dietary histories

Selection of the area of irrigated cotton to plant is a perennial problem.

WATERSCHED has been developed by research and extension agronomists from the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and uses a water balance approach to schedule irrigations.

With current Australian cotton production around 1.25 million bales this equates to C.R.C. research expenditure of A$3.2 to 3.5 million per year - allowing for reserves, administration, etc. These C.R.C.