Nitrogen (N) nutrition of high yielding cotton crops remains one of the biggest production costs with improvement of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) being somewhat of an enigma when trying to ensure that profitability a

The project was looking to achieve this through the development of a new system of soil preparation and management for irrigated orchards, row crops and pastures, enabling large inputs of stable soil organic matter, t

Extensive work on soil structure by researcher Dr Bruce Cockroft from Northern Victoria has brought the maintenance of soil structure into the spotlight as a promising area for irrigators to work on to improve their y

Determination of the petiole nitrate nitrogen concentration (PNN) in the youngest fully expanded leaf (YFEL) of cotton is a useful indicator of plant nitrogen status.