I (Dr Karen Kirkby) received an invitation from Dr Jason Woodward from Texas Tech University and Dr Terry Wheeler from Texas A&M AgriLife Research & Extension Center at Lubbock to visit the laboratories

Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) are common in hospitals around the world, where patients get infected for reasons entirely unrelated to the purpose of their admission.

Weather Station Upgrades: The Darling Downs Cotton Growers Inc (DDCGI), and individual growers established 21 weather stations between the period 1996-1998, to provide growers with localised weather information to ass

Sustainable weed management in cotton farming systems is critical to the long-term production of profitable, high yielding cotton crops.

This Guide provides you with a comprehensive summary of the key cotton crop protection issues, and is brought to you by CRDC and the Australian cotton industry's joint extension program, CottonInfo.

The spring edition of CRDC's magazine, Spotlight, is a special IPM edition.

CRDC research partner, the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF), commissioned an impact assessment of the CRDC-supported project 'Strengthening the Central Highlands Cotton Production System&

The Nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPV) are dsDNA invertebrate-specific obligate pathogens of the insect orders Lepidoptera, Hymenopteran and Dipteran belonging to the family Baculoviridae (Baculovirus).

CRDC's Annual Operational Plan for 2017-18 (AOP): the fifth (and final) annual operational plan under the CRDC's Strategic R&D Plan 2013-18.

Cotton growers in the Dawson Valley currently have no access to localised, correct weather forecasting and status and rely on information relayed from weather stations located at Biloela which is 116 km away.

In line with CRDC Strategic Plan 2013 - 18, CRDC has supported the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation with the substratal belief that the success of the Australian cotton industry is driven by

National Plant Biosecurity RD&E Strategy

• Endorsed by PIMC December 2013

• Implementation Committee formed August 2014

• Cross sectorial strategy so no direct RDC to report to

The second Agriculture and Climate Change conference focused on the likely impact of climate change on crop production and explored approaches to maintain and increase crop productivity in a changing climate.

Achieving reliable, even crop establishment has been identified through the Dryland Cotton Research Association (DCRA) project meetings as one of the major concerns dryland cotton growers face.

This project evaluated and demonstrated nitrogen fertiliser and irrigation management strategies, including variable rate fertiliser applications, rotational cropping with legumes and matching fertiliser rates to crop

This project will provide the cotton industry with a champion for Rivercare aiming to communicate to cotton growers and the general public, through the establishment of a long-term riparian condition monitoring site o

Declining water quality and quantity is a threat to the production of food and fibre worldwide.

This report documents the outcomes of the Australian Cotton Industry Sustainability Stakeholder Forum and is very insightful into the perceptions and perspectives of peak industry bodies and cotton growers, with some

Project CFEO1603 was commissioned to gain an understanding of the opportunities, benefits and risks involved in emission reductions for broad acre irrigated and dryland cropping.