Abstract of Speech to be presented by Richard Haire, CEO Queensland Cotton.

Macintyre Downs is a 3500 hectare irrigation property along 15km of the northern side the Macintyre River, bordering NSW, west of Goondiwindi.

Fusarium wilt is an economically important disease of cotton in Australia. Disease occurs at the intersection of pathogen, plant, and environment (Figure I).

Soil type and climate both influence the cotton plants response to soil moisture status. Soil types differ in both the amount of moisture contained and more importantly how this moisture is available to the plant.

There appears to have been a change in the importance of pests presenting cotton over the last decade. This has involved former secondary pests, such as aphids, A. gossypii, minds, Creontiodes spp.