Implications for local provenance seed selection and landscape restoration

CRDC's Annual Operating Plan for 2007–08 (AOP): the

fifth (and final) annual operating plan under the CRDC's Strategic R&D Plan 2003–2008.

This issue of Thinking Bush provides you with a sample of the many issues being addressed by organisations such as the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Bureau of Rural Scien

A salt-affected paddock on the corner block of a Lake Toolbrunup property had become known to locals as 'starvation corner'.

Picking contractors are most concerned about the financial viability and security of their business and the aging status and declining value of their machinery Movement of machinery is a major concern for picking cont

This report is a result of the national extension/education review which was a flagship project of the Co-operative Venture for Capacity Building for Innovation in rural Industries(CVCB).The review sought a range of e

The broad aims of CCC CRC 5.2.03 ‘Delivering science to agribusiness: Smart approaches to cotton irrigation management’ were to; conduct irrigation research for emerging crop management issues and alternative cotton c

The problem of water scarcity has become one of the most controversial topics in Australia over the past decades, with particular focus being the 'sustainable' allocation of water between extractive and envi

Eretmocerus hayati was first released in late Oct 2004 and over the next 2.5 years it has since spread has far south as the Sydney Basin, west into the northern NSW cotton production areas and in Qld from the NSW bord

Final Report - Nutritional constraints to efficient cotton production

CSIRO Plant lndustry's Cotton Management Support Systems Team (CMSST) develops and

delivers decision support systems (DSS) to improve the profitability and sustainability of

Principal Researchers: Dr M. Bange, Ms. S Deutscher, Mr D. Linsley, Mr S. Johnston, Mr. D. Richards, Ms. L. Thakur, Ms L. Clancy

The CRDC project funds for “Operational Costs for Cotton Experiments” is used to fund cotton experimental trials at the Australian Cotton Research Institute (ACRI).

Beneficial insects (generalist predators and parasitoids) occur within cotton agro ecosystems in Australia, but farming systems do not always encourage their survival.

To purchase additional instrumentation which will enhance existing experiments such that the rigorous scientific measurement and comparison of the water use efficiency of transgenic and conventional cotton systems can

The focus of the project has been to provide support for growers and consultants of broadacre crops, as they attempt to implement IPM.

Wincott – the Women’s Industry Network Cotton – has achieved all the objectives of this project.

This PhD project aims to determine the mechanisms, by which soil sodicity impacts on the uptake of nutrients and growth of cotton crops, in order that soil sodium levels can be factored into crop nutritional managemen

A major challenge for the insect pest management is responding to resistance.The spread of resistance 'genes' throughout a population depends upon initital frequencies, dominance, fitness consequences and th

This project has part funded field operation costs charged by NSW DPI to CSIRO for experiments on ACRI at Narrabri in 2006/07.