As most of you are aware, the Siratac Cotton Management Advisor computer program is being rewritten. There will be those amongst you who are unaware as to why this is being done.

There are increasing areas of cotton grown in regions which are prone to cool seasons, eg. the Darling Downs, the upper Namoi and upper Macquarie valleys.

Most, if not all, entomologists involved in the development of cotton insect management systems agree that an essent1al part of a successful Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program is the ava;lability of an eff1cac1o

Irrigation scheduling in cotton using the water balance program WATERSCHED has been the subject of an extension development project in Queensland for two years. The project is funded by Cotton Research Council.

It is now two years since we advi sed the previous conference on the progress of the trials so will take this opportunity for a further update.

Insecticides can poison insects in many ways. Insecticides r...:an interfere with metabolic processes , of energy production, cuticular growth and hormone production.

Irrigation trials have been conducted at Byee over the last two seasons as part of a Statewide project funded by the Cotton Research Council.

Four cotton breeding programs have been operating in Australia, three i n New South Wales and one in Queensland .

At the time of the initiation of the H.armigera resistance management strategy, there was a need to demonstrate that any increase in resistance was limited to crops sprayed with pyrethroids.

The objective of the cotton breeding programme is to breed cultivars which are adapted to central Queensland environments.

All insecticide management decisions require a solid platform of reliable data and this can only be achieved by a long term committment to pesticide studies, obtaining baseline susceptibility data and monitoring of ch

Currently in Australia there are approximately 700 cotton germplasm accessions located with CSIRO, QDPI and a few private seed companies.

The frequency of resistance to synthetic pyrethroids in Heliothis armigera has been monitored in the Namoi Valley since the introduction of the insecticide resistance management strategy in 1983.

This review of the literature referring to A. macrospora indicates the extent of current knowledge about the pathogen and the disease it causes.

in the Gwydir Valley where the water resource has been over committed to such an extent that a full allocation of water will only be realized only SO years out of every 100 years.

Host Plant resistance is one such method and has been adopted in developing plant resistance to a range of plant problems. Plants posses both natural physiological and chemical defence mechanisms.

Nematodes are regarded as a major pest of cotton in many parts of the world. It has been claimed that "nematodes cause economic losses to cotton everywhere it is grown" (Watkins. 1981).

Proper nutrition is one of the many factors necessary in achieving the high yield and quality standards we have set for our cotton crop.

To investigate soil response to compaction, a range of cracking clay soils (Vertisols) were collected from major cotton growing areas in Queensland and subjected to a uni-axial-compression.

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