The majority of Australia’s cotton producing soil is grey or black vertosols which have high clay content and are naturally prone to waterlogging following heavy rain or surface irrigation.

Financial performance benchmarking studies have identified increasing fertiliser input costs in the cotton industry.

Manual calculations of yield loss from pest infestations are complicated and time consuming.

Evaporation water losses from irrigation channels are an important component of total irrigation system losses and could be as much as 12% in the Goulburn Murray channel network.

This case study reports on the outcomes of two workshops run in the Mildura district for irrigators and consultants.