This is Land & Water Australia's fourth Annual Operational Plan under the current Strategic R&D Plan 2001-6.

In 2003-04, the National Dryland Salinity Program (NDSP) as part of its final synthesis year concentrated on integrating the information and knowledge gained over the past 10 years of nationally co-ordinated research

From humble beginings in the 1880s by individual farmers along inland rivers and, in particular, the efforts of the Chaffey brothers at Renmark and Mildura in 1887, the irrigation industries in Australia have expanded

This report been prepared by the CIE as part of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation. The financial assistance provided by the Program through Land and Water Australia is gratefully acknowledged.

Scientific Exchange Ms Rose Roche, Purpose of Exchange: Attend the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Texas as a, speaker, The purpose of this exchange was to attend the Beltwide Cotton Conferences, San, Antonio, Texas US

Five sites representing the main cotton growing soil types in the Lower Macquarie Valley were selected and soil sampled in late October and May 2004.

ABSTRACT

Helicoverpa spp. are arguably Australia’s most important insect pests, costing the

economy $200-300M annually. Significant advances in the management of

Temperature plays a critical and complicated role in the growth and development of cotton.

Project Summaries from Postgraduate Visit

McKinnon, Buchanan, Delaney, Dodd, Humphries, Ivkovic, Lightfoot, Lowor, Machado, Najar, Speirs, Vanags, Werth, Whiffen and White

Genetic engineering to confer useful agronomic and fibre traits will lower the cost and time

required for producing improved cotton varieties and will promote environmentally-friendly

Purpose of Exchange: Attend Visual Basic Developers Conference, This application was for Scott Johnston to attend the Access/ Visual Basic Developers, Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, 8-12 June 2003.

Limitations on the availability of irrigation water in eastern Australia has created

interest in the possibility of re-establishing cotton in the Oof

Cotton production in Central Queensland will continue to impose a unique set of challenges due to climate and it’s remoteness from other production areas.

Fusarium wilt is considered by many growers, ginners, consultants and other industry personnel as the most important constraint to sustainable cotton production to have developed in recent years.

Scientific Exchange USA Scientist Dr Tom Sinclair (USDA/University of, Florida) to Narrabri, Following the International Crop Science Congress last year we were presented with a, unique opportunity to host internation

This project aimed to identify factors that could substantially influence Bt efficacy in transgenic cotton. Cry1Ac protein concentration in cotton leaves was measured quantitatively using a commercial ELISA assay.

Stinkbugs are emerging pests in cotton. In conventional cotton the use of broad-spectrum insecticides to kill Helicoverpa spp.

Since the first reported control failures at Emerald during the 1998-99 cotton season, insecticide resistance in cotton aphid, has emerged as a significant threat to the Australian cotton industry.

The current project was devised in the knowledge that increased sodicity and salinity of percolating water will alter the saturated conductivity of many soils, especially sodic soils.