Cotton production worldwide uses 11 per cent of global insecticides each year and the trend continues to increase (Pesticide News, 2001).

The world's textile industry has gone through structural changes and there are rapid moves toward industrial reorganization in Asian countries in pursue of the progress in the developed countries.

WEEDpak is a compilation of information on the management of weeds in the Australian cotton industry. The major theme throughout WEEDpak is the management of weeds through integrated weed management (IWM) principles.

Cotton production in Australia occurs mainly in cracking clay soils. In the past, it was widely assumed that deep drainage was negligible in these soils (Hearn, 2000).

Fusarium wilt of cotton, caused by the soil-borne fungus - Fusarium oxysporum formae specialis vasinfectum (Fov), is a worldwide disease of great economic importance.

Distributed across every major cotton growing region, the Australian Cotton CRCs National Extension Network aims to enhance the returns to industry accruing from the implementation of research and development.

The Australian cotton industry has, until recently, relied largely upon residual pre-plant and pre-emergent herbicides for weed control in irrigated production systems.

Strains of cotton aphid and the green peach aphid were collected from cotton producing faints in eastern Australia. Green peach aphid was rarely collected but resistance to Curacron and Pirimor was documented.

In Australia, premature senescence (PS) is occurring with increasing frequency in cotton crops.

Cotton was previously grown in the Ord during the 1960's and early 1970's.

Effective resistance monitoring underpins the Australian cotton resistance management strategy for insects and mites.

In the past three years two biological control agents, new to Australia, have been discovered attacking cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii.

Predatory arthropods are important in cotton IPM programs and planting a diverse range of crops may increase the on farm bio-diversity of predators.

This paper aims to present the breeder's understanding of fibre and variety characteristics for the next decade.

Fusarium wilt continues to be an increasing problem in almost all major cotton growing regions of Australia.

Cotton planted into cereal stubble has numerous benefits over conventional planting methods, such as reducing soil erosion, reducing pesticide and nutrient movement, and improving soil condition (Waters and Sequeira 2

Attract and kill formulations are ideal tools for inclusion in IPM strategies to control insect pests, as they can be targeted at a single pest species without affecting beneficial insects, or creating secondary pest

Concerns about the increase in resistance towards synthetic chemical insecticides in the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera, led the Australian cotton industry to adopt new pest management ideas.

Cotton production in Australia is a high-tech industry.

In developing strategies for insect pest management growers and consultants have demonstrated that adopting a more dynamic approach to insect thresholds is more important than using any predetermined threshold.