Submerged water plants (aquatic macrophytes) are a desirable component of shallow lakes and wetlands, and management activities should be directed to ensure their continual presence.

Fleabane has become one of the most difficult-to-control weeds in dryland cropping systems in recent years, The weed problem is thought to have resulted from recent changes in farming practices toward greater use of z

Accurate identification is important for the management of all weed species for a range of different reasons including the selection of effective herbicides and implementing timely management before seed set so that p

It is well recognised that Consultants and Agronomists have a key role to play in the dissemination of information generated through research and development.

Irrigation is an indispensable technology used to augment agricultural production in the semi-and and arid regions. However, poor water management (eg.

New South Wales water catchments are now having their third attempt at managing our natural resources each having come along with its own set of expectations This tells us that we may have the last chance to get Catch

Cotton fibres, or lint, are very long single cells containing almost pure cellulose. The fibres develop in the weeks after flowering from single cells on the surface of the young seed.

Cotton aphids are a potential problem for future cotton systems.

In 1971 Dr HJ Firth wrote - 'the Murray- Darling system, in addition to being the greatest river Basin in the land, is one of the greatest and most complex problems of resource conservation and management.

One step in the production of transgenic cotton is the regeneration of whole plants from undifferentiated cells (calli) in which the gene of interest has been inserted.

The Insecticide Resistance Management Strategy (IRMS) for cotton is designed to manage insecticide use, maintain the susceptibility of pest species to insecticides and to manage resistance where it already exists so t

The over reliance on, and widespread use of, synthetic insecticides has led to resistance, increased concerns about the long term environmental impacts, and public health issues (Smart et al 1994).

In modem society there has never been more emphasis placed on the accuracy and reliability of spatial information used for management of natural resources.

Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) and H. punctigera (Wallengren, commonly called heIiothis, have historically been the primary focus of cotton pest management in Australia (Fitt 1994; 2000).

Australian cotton growers have utilised collaborative research, education and extension to aid the development of what is today one of the most innovative rural industries.

Uptakes of phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulphur, zinc, manganese, iron and copper were measured in an experiment evaluating nutrition of cotton in a newly developed field.

The Assassin Bug, Pristhesancus plagipennis is a natural enemy with considerable promise for controlling HeIiothis (Helicoverpa spp.) and mirids in cotton.

While the importance of biodiversity in ecosystem function has been accepted for some time (Tilman & Downing 1994), only recently has the relative importance of the diversity of functional characteristics of t

Central Queensland currently enjoys an ascochyta blight free status, however the use of chickpeas as a winter trap crop has created a potential risk for the introduction of the disease.

It was May of 1984 while living in Japan; I received a call that our company had bought George H. MCFadden Co. I was told we had a 50% ownership in a gin in Australia and I was to go check it out ASAP.