Through a review of the literature it is apparent that many of the generic methods and techniques which will be so valuable to the efficient implementation of precision agriculture farming systems are being developed for other agricultural crops and will be largely transferable with little alterations and applied to cotton management. Foremost amongst these are the engineering processes and tools required to perform such machinations as the variable rate application of fertiliser. seeds and pesticides. Elements of weakness within a precision agriculture management cycle for Australian cotton farming systems are identified. These primarily included the lack of knowledge of within-field variability of cotton yield upon which an estimation of the typical variability could be based. Were it available, this typical variability would then be used as a measure of the opportunity fo r potential adoption of precision agricultural management techniques