Fungal diseases, in particular Verticillium wilt, and, more recently, Fusarium wilt, have the potential to cause major losses in Australian cotton production.

The Agricultural Engineering Research Unit, based at Trangie ARC, undertook a research program to ensure an even and adequate (but not excessive) supply of NH3 to the crop in conditions which allow full utilisation by

Crop rotations, including wheat and sorghum, can provide stubble cover to protectthe soil while cotton is establishing.

Weed management systems in cotton are continually evolving, particularly in response to reduced cultivation and chipping and increased use of herbicides.

This project sets out to address some of the problems associated with growing dryland cotton using reduced and notillage practices, and look for possible solutions which will allow cotton to be integrated into sustain

Controlling heliothine caterpillars presents an ever greater challenge for the Australian cotton industry.

The CSIRO breeding program at the Australian Cotton Research Institute at Narrabri aims to develop locally adapted varieties for use by Australian farmers.

Green mind, Creontiades dilitus (Stal), is an important sporadic pest of cotton at the seedling stage and through early squaring.

This is a Cotton Research and Development Corporation funded three year project toconsider the follong areas and address the issues developed below.Aims:To continue and develop the work begun in the existing project w

The introduction of transgenic cotton expressing the CrylAc insecticidal crystal protein from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is expected to provide the basis for pest management in cotton in the near future and to reduce

The Australian cotton industry has been practising curative conventional insecticide resistance management for thirteen years now.

There is a saying that you should &quote;begin with the end in mind&quote;.

In Australia the primary pesticide for control of heliothis in cotton is the organochlorine endosulfan.

The following is a summarised version of a paper written on research into two potential reference methods for a NIR fibre maturity and fineness instrument being developed at the United States Department of Agriculture

This talk is heavily dependant on slides, so the following 1s really only a &quote;background&quote; paper.

In this paper we present data on the effects of N fertilizer application to a wheat rotation crop on soil strength, nutrient uptake by the following cotton crop and cotton lint yields which were obtained from two stud

This talk is heavily dependant on slides, so the following 1s really only a &quote;background&quote; paper.

This paper reports the results of an experiment to quantify the fruiting characteristics of eight cotton varieties to enable crop simulation models to more accurately reflect yield and maturity of current varieties.

Summary Following square and boll loss, damaged plants may became taller and leafier than undamaged plants.

The cotton fields are considered to be a biologically 'sterile' environment because of the constant use of pesticides and herbicides, however little work has been done to document the potential benefit