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 conforms to industry Best Management Practices

The Australian cotton industry is internationally recognised as innovative, dynamic and hugely successful.

There are significant resources available to cotton growers and their consultants about management options for specific weeds, efficient ways to utilise alternative control tactics such as cultivation or double knocks

Discussions with a number of growers, workers and agronomists found that many of them knew very little about Australian Cotton Research Institute (ACRI) and what went on there and how research projects were actually d

The resilience of a stacked Bt technology is determined by the efficacy of each individual toxin in controlling insects.

Within the national framework for biosecurity, all commonwealth and state governments and plant industries who are signatories to the Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed (EPPRD), formally commit to preparations that in

Three Mental and Physical Health Empowerment Days were held. Dirranbandi was held on the 9th of May 2014, St George on the 30th of May 2014 and Mungindi was held on the 13th of June 2014.

This was a summer scholarship aimed at providing some experience/expertise to University of Southern Queensland student, Johanna Nielson in pathology starting with a well known pathogen.

Cotton growers and consultants are becoming concerned with the level of

compaction in soils in the Gwydir. The feeling is that compaction is increasing due

The three-gene product Bollgard 3 is expected to be available commercially in 2015.

Controlling Volunteers * Time of Planting - Some Interesting Results *Plant X

Trial Update N trials, Time of planting - some interesting results , word from the Consultants.

The N trial at Milo, an impromptu field day at Boolooroo in April. Agro Update with Rob Holmes, Time of Planting - Some Interesting Results

The cotton growing environment can be a high risk environment for bees.

Snapshot of project achievements:

• Five farmers with improved natural resourcemanagement knowledge and skills

• 16,830ha of native vegetation conditionbenchmarked

Bugilbone Ridge Feral Pig Management

In the Namoi Valley a pilot project has trialled exciting

new ways to engage growers and their families

in managing natural vegetation on their farms

Ashley & Rowena Feral Pig Management

In the Gwydir valley a series of workshops on

vegetation management were held with 43

landholders within the Ashley and Rowena area

As anyone who has tried to kill cotton will know, controlling unwanted plants goes from being difficult with small plants, to almost impossible with larger plants.

Cotton leaf roll dwarf virus (the causal agent of Cotton blue disease) or a virus closely related to this species was detected in an asymptomatic Sea Island cotton plant (Gossypium barbadense) in Laivai, Timor Leste.<

These end of season resistance management tactics are key components of the Bollgard II resistance management plan (RMP).