Whilst managing for fibre quality is in the title of this presentation, most of the focus is on yield.

The Australian cotton industry has now had three seasons of commercial scale use of Bollgard II, the two Bt gene product developed by Monsanto for insertion into cotton for control of Heliothis.

Dryland cotton production is an important component of cropping systems in the northern grain belt.

A strip tiller machine was assembled and used prior to cotton planting this season. Some practical problems associated with heavy clay soils showed up, and are being addressed.

Many researchers are involved in the evaluation of rotation cropping in several cropping systems experiments being conducted throughout the cotton production area.