The native budworm Helicoverpa punctigera is an important pest of field crops in Australia alongside the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera, and both share a number of host plants. H.

In the autumn of 2011, CRDC identified that the forecast of a second consecutive La Nina year represented a potential disease risk to the cotton industry that was linked to the over-winter management of weeds, ratoon

Expansion will be determined by water availability in combination with markets.

Attendance and presention of my paper on long-term cotton experiments and changes in soil organic carbon in Australian cotton soils at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

This sponsorship provided expenses to travel to America to study cotton growing and machinery use in drylands and irrigated cotton Texas region.