CottonInfo’s cotton nutrition

tour hit the road in February 2016, bringing 10 leading cotton nutrition researchers onto farms

across five cotton growing valleys.

Growers were invited to field days at Gunnedah, Warren, Griffith, Emerald and Moree to meet with

these researchers and to learn about the latest developments in nutrition research. Kicking off with the Gunnedah

field day on February 8, on to Warren, Griffith, Emerald and Moree.

A Research overview was the Agenda led by Allan

Williams and Jane Trindall, CRDC. other specialised presenters included:

Sustainable cotton production: higher yields, more often - Dr Oliver Knox, UNE

Nutrient budgeting - Dr Chris Dowling, Back Paddock

Improving nitrogen use efficiency- Dr Dio Antille, USQ

Mineralised nitrogen in crop - Dr Francois Visser, UQ

Nitrogen losses from irrigated cotton - Dr Ben Macdonald, CSIRO Phosphorus considerations: irrigated and raingrown cotton - Dr

Brendan Griffiths, UNE

Optimising nitrogen and irrigation application and nitrous oxide emissions - Jon Baird, NSW DPI

Soil health and crop rotations - Dr Vadakutta Gupta, CSIRO

Nitrous oxide losses from irri- gated cotton - Dr Graeme Schwenke, NSW DPI

Research in practice - Nigel Corish, cotton grower and Nuffield Scholar

Research, trials and local issues

- Local CottonInfo regional development officers,

PLUS, hear from the growers hosting each of the field days about their on-farm crop nutrition.

All topics were covered at Gunnedah, Warren, Griffith and Emerald. A modified

agenda for Moree, as was nutrition is part of the agenda at the Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association

grower-led irrigation systems research field day.