If Australia is to maintain its reputation as a consistent supplier of high quality cotton it

will need to ensure that the entire cotton pipeline from growing to ginning and from

The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation provided funds to undertake an 8-week research study on-farm during the 2010-2011 summer.

An open hydroponics system aims to increase productivity by high frequency application of irrigation water and nutrients to the soil. Such a system is sometimes also called advanced fertigation.

Resistance to poses a threat to the continued sustainable production of cotton that transgenic agriculture has enabled.

myBMP Overview: website operational 2010. A power point presentation on myBMP tools, website and resources with technical assistance contacts.

Various cotton industry programs over recent years have placed more focus on alternative aspects of the traditional extension model such as skill development, knowledge management and capacity building.

GHD was contracted to undertake works by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation through the grant, 2nd Round 2008 National Program for Sustainable Irrigation, Western Australia and the South West Development

Developed as part of the ‘Promoting Science and Agriculture in schools’ project, it was recognised that there was an opportunity to more actively involve students that study textile and design.

Prolonged drought, along with a growing population and projected global warming effects are driving a focus on more efficient management of water in Australia.

The introduction of glyphosate tolerant cotton has significantly improved the

flexibility and management of a number of problem weeds in cotton systems.

) used to support pesticide management decisions at the catchment-scale can deliver environmental protection while retaining farm production benefits.

Water management in the cotton industry has continued to be of fundamental importance to sustainability and production.

Since the introduction of Bt-cotton secondary pests such as aphids, mites and bugs have become more prominent requiring targeted insecticide control.

The Australian cotton industry generates, on average, over $1.5billion per year in export revenue. About 80 per cent of cotton farms are irrigated and the farms are generally mixed enterprise operations.

Prof. Dr. Silvia Dorn, Professor of Applied Entomology from ETH Zurich in Switzerland was on a scientific exchange to the Australian Cotton Research Institute (ACRI) in Narrabri from 5 – 12 February 2011.

Novel approaches to irrigation scheduling are becoming critically important as water resources in the Basin come under increased scrutiny.

Deep drainage below the root zone is still the least understood component of the water balance, especially in cracking clay soils.

Irrigated vineyards in Australia have seen extensive adoption of drip irrigation. At the start of this project there was concern about the sustainability of drip irrigation based on previous field observations.

The aims of the project were to determine the effect of selected management practices on

carbon sequestration, soil quality and hydrology, crop agronomy and profitability in irrigated

Even though the cotton industry is relatively successful, it continually faces a range of critical issues from drought and water supply; yield and profitability; fibre quality and export price; nutrition; sustainabili