Cotton Bunchytop Identification, Management for 2011 and beyond

The Winter 2011 edition of CRDC's quarterly magazine, Spotlight, looks at pest and disease threats in the Australian cotton industry and looks back at the lessons learned in crop management post flood.

Final report Quantifying deep drainage in an irrigated cotton landscape

This ute guide can assist consultants and growers correctly identify their pest and beneficial insects and creates awareness of the role that native vegetation can play in IPM.

CRDC's Annual Operating Plan for 2011–02 (AOP): the fourth annual operating plan under the CRDC's Strategic R&D Plan 2008–2013.

The 2010-2011 Annual Report for the Cotton Catchment Communities CRC. 

Dr John Triantafilis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales.

Water consumption in the irrigation sector has a perception of being a high water consumer, these perceptions are not wrong. Currently it represents 53% of total water consumption in Victoria (ABS, 2010).

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.

7. Provide an assessment of the likely impact of the results and conclusions of the research

project for the cotton industry. What are the take home messages?

The CQ Cotton Regional Extension project has been a key to the delivery of emerging, cutting edge research information and knowledge to the Central Queensland cotton industry.

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 is a regional based market focused industry generating in excess of $1 billion of export revenue.

The Australian Future Cotton Leaders program was conducted between June 2009 and September 2010. The project framework was managed by Cotton Australia. The program involved three key stages over 14 months:

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.

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.

Worldwide, virus diseases, especially Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) cause serious economic losses to cotton production.

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

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

Conyza bonariensis (L.) Cronquist, flaxleaf fleabane, originating from South America, is a

major emerging weed threat for dry-land cropping systems in Australia. Conyza bonariensis