The companion project to SOILpak, "Soil management training for advisers to cotton growers" has made a good start in familiarising consultants and agronomists with structural recognition.

The Project The Galathera syndrome affects cotton growing in the Namoi Valley, north-western New South Wales.

SOILpak is a soil management manual for cotton growing on cracking clays. It leads you through the decision-making process to a number of options. The manual presents options rather than hard-and-fast rules.

Ripping (deep soil working ) can give conflicting responses. Sometimes it i ncreases cotton yields and other times it de creases cotton yields.

This project was aimed at providing a rational approach to restoring soil structure after it becomes degraded under intensive irrigated cotton production. The specific aims were: 1.