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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Very few economists are employed in Australian cotton research.

ARRIP is a national database of rural research in progress.

This article presents some of the results of the weed survey, which was conducted in 1989, covering 67 600 ha, representing 48% of the NSW cotton area, and involving 52 growers.

The wild ancestors of cotton are found in the arid regions of the world.

Numerous alternative control techniques have been available In various forms for many years. Unfortunately none of these alternatives have been regarded as practically or economically viable.