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

SOILpak is a soil management manual for cotton growing on cracking clays. It leads you through the decision-making process to a number of options. The manual presents options rather than hard-and-fast rules.

SIRATAC users have the option early in the season of using standard thresholds or dynamic thresholds which vary between the standard level and an upper limit.

The Siratac system when it was originally conceived had no database system included in the workings of the system.

Australian Cotton Conference. I have been asked to speak to you on the effects on the industry of the US Farm Bill and other political moves.

The CRC contracted Queensland Cotton and Siratac Ltd. to conduct a survey on the transfer of research information into the cotton industry.

As most of you are aware, the Siratac Cotton Management Advisor computer program is being rewritten. There will be those amongst you who are unaware as to why this is being done.

Host Plant resistance is one such method and has been adopted in developing plant resistance to a range of plant problems. Plants posses both natural physiological and chemical defence mechanisms.

In recent times cotton growers have seen the need to adopt new land preparation practices. In the Macquarie Valley alone, only 35% of the 1987/88 cotton crop was prepared using conventional techniques.

Your committee has asked me particularly to focus on the technological needs of the industry. As a background to this it's worth talking briefly about the research councils and their evolution.

The need to develop marketing strategies for the Australian cotton crop appears to be imperative. If we are to continue to develop nev.1 cotton varieties.

The threat of resistance has been realised, and no doubt will continue to be realised in the future. What then is the cost once resistance has developed?

The following paper outlines the Bureau's latest outlook for the Australian cotton industry as recently published in the Quarterly Review of Rural Economy Vol . 8, No. 3 August 1986.

By now most people in the cotton industry have formed an opinion about Siratac as a concept and Siratac as a Company.

In agriculture we often hear reports of new wonder varieties that are about.to revolutionise agriculture, yet when these varieties are released, if indeed they are released, they seem to fall far short of the publicit