Farming systems are continually attracting interest amongst the growing community, since input costs are continually increasing and returns behave in a cyclic nature.

The human resource is the most important resource in our industry. Human resource managers and trainers often repeat these words in such presentations as this.

We compared the responses of dryland and irrigated cotton to damage caused by two spotted spider mites in a field experiment at Narrabri. Mites colonies developed at similar rates in irrigated and dryland crops.

(I) To continue and develop the work begun in UsQ6C which focuses on residue handling in back to back cotton and rotation crops while optimising the control of diapausing heliothis pupae.

The imperatives for a comprehensive training scheme in the cotton industry are easily identifiable: looming skills shortage, new and complex technologies to be adopted, best management practices to be implemented and

Good average irrigated yields have been achieved on the Darling Downs by most growers this season while dryland crops on average did not fare so well due to the unseasonal hot dry conditions.

VAM are important in the growth of cotton and the production of lint. VAM are a normal part of cotton plants and they are usually present in the roots. Only in their absence do we realise their importance.

Marketing, specifically generic marketing, must be one of the linchpins of any strategy to &quote;cover our future&quote;. The fact that generic marketing must be done is a given.

Australian cotton production relies heavily on the use of pesticides for control of Helicoverpa spp. As a result insecticide resistance has become a major problem (Daly and Paschalidis 1994).

Has the introduction of Bt genes into the cotton plant affected its capacity for compensation after insect damage? This question is relevant for three reasons.

Cotton's share of world textile fibre consumption is falling and now equals less than 45%, down about five percentage points since 1986 when cotton's share was 50%.

Organophosphate insecticides are valuable insecticides used to control Helicoverpa armigera on cotton in Australia. Organophosphates most commonly used for Helicoverpa spp.

Traditional methods of generating soil information on the field scale have involved the design and adoption of soil sampling regimes and laboratory analysis.

Neps cause significant financial losses to the textile industry. This paper defines different types of cotton neps, their sources and measurements, and the current state of knowledge about research on neps.

The past growing season (1997/98) was the second commercial year of INGARD cotton varieties with some 60,000 ha planted across all growing regions.

The silverleaf whitefly (SLW), Bemisia tabaci B-biotype, was first discovered in Australia in 1994 (Gunning et al 1995).

In the race for market share, the cotton industry faces strong competition from chemical fibres.

The long term production of cotton it the same field often leads to low yields, even with 1:large amounts of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertiliser.

This project was designed to support the deployment and continued use of transgenic (INGARD) cotton in the Australian cotton industry.

The Australian cotton industry now has a new version of the SOILpak manual.