Weather and climate news 10 August 2015

Small palaeochannels located in irrigated cotton fields have been identified as areas of potential high deep drainage (Triantafilis et al. 2003).

Water availability will be a key consideration for some (if not all!) growers during the coming season. So in this edition, we take a look at management options for growers with a limited water supply.

Key Points fro report of direct energy consumption

Weather and climate news 13 July 2015

Cotton CRC Gomeroi Skills project summary

Auscott's Midkin property at Moree has a long history of environmental and riparian management. It's been 14 years since work on the regeneration of riparian areas was initiated at Midkin back in 2001.

Controlling unwanted cotton in the farming system is an essential part of good integrated pest and disease management.

Managing riparian vegetation for multiple benefits

In August 2014, St George cotton growers took part in their first 'Spring Clean' event, turning the difficult business of disease management into a fun, social day; uniting the community behind the common go

South East Queensland farmer Engelbert Krampl first encountered glyphosate resistant barnyard grass in his cropping system in the summer of 2008-09.

The End of Season Resistance Monitoring Report, by Sharon Downes, and the Conventional Insecticide Testing Report, by Lisa Bird provide a summary of the outcomes of both programs during this season.

CRDC's Annual Operational Plan for 2015-16 (AOP): the third annual operational plan under the CRDC's Strategic R&D Plan 2013-18.

The Primary Industry Centre for Science Education (PICSE) is a proven national collaboration between universities, regional primary industries, national R&D Corporations, national agribusiness, regional research i

This project examined the costs and benefits of defoliation strategies used in the defoliation of high input irrigated cotton crops.

The 2nd Australian Cotton Research Conference was held in Toowoomba at University of Southern Queensland, from 8-10 September 2015.

Financial performance benchmarking studies have identified increasing fertiliser input costs in the cotton industry.

In 2008 the Cotton CRC invested in an Education Officer for 5 years to promote science and agriculture in schools.

CRDC 2015/16 Summer Scholarships (S/S ) Purpose- Strategic Plan Targets 1.Farmers 2. Industry 3.Customers 4. People 5.Performance Summer Scholarship Programme - 8 weeks

This proposal builds on many years of weeds work supported by CRDC and aims to value add to the earlier work, while providing strategic information to cotton growers in support of MyBMP, based around updating WEEDpak,