Deep drainage and runoff, combined with poor nitrogen fertiliser practice, is resulting in significant nitrogen losses in early season irrigation.

There is an increasing use of spreaders for application of urea in the cotton industry.

Black Root rot (Thielaviopsis basicola) BRR is a major threat to cotton production in southern and central NSW. It has a wide host range of more than 230 species of plants (Pereg 2013).

Cotton Mealybugs have moved south from Central Queensland with confirmed sightings on the Darling Downs and in the Macintyre Valley in January & February 2017.

Two workshops were organised by The Cotton Info Team to address a number of grower requests for human resource information and managing staff.