The project focussed on phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) status of northern cropping soils.

Cottonspec is a yarn quality prediction software developed by CSIRO with support from the CCC CRC, CRDC and Chinese partner mills.

Barbara Grey is an irrigated cotton farmer from Mungindi, in SW Qld, and the 2011 Rural Women’s Award Winner for Qld, and National Runner-up.

Attendance at the International Committee for Cotton Test Methods (ICCTM) Meeting, the 31st International Cotton Conference Bremen and visit to the USDA cotton testing laboratory in New Orleans, USA.

Darlington Point in 1964 and the CSIRO conducted a cotton breeding program for many years at Griffith. Cotton was the first row crop grown on Ravensworth Station at Hay and Kooba Station at Darlington Point.

The Sicala 340BRF fibre grown commercially over the last three seasons generally produced a fibre with variable quality.

Transgenic (Bt) cotton has provided major benefits for the Australia cotton industry (e.g. control of Helicoverpa and reduced pesticide use), but the possibility of Bt resistance in these insects is a major threat.

During my two visits to the emerging cotton areas in southern NSW early January and early March, 2012, I was able to meet with all but three of the key people supplying agronomic advice to the cotton area.

The project, Regeneration of floodplain vegetation in response to large-scale flooding in the Condamine-Balonne and Border Rivers, was a collaboration between the Cotton CRC, QLD DERM, NSW Office of Water and the Aust

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With an increase in cotton production and the expected hilum of new people into the industry, understanding spinners' requirements will be of the utmost importance to assist the Australian cotton industry to cont

The weather station was installed September 2012 close to Walgett in an place that is central to the majority of Walgett cotton growers. It is working well recording rainfall, wind, temperature etc.

The Australian cotton industry is a world leader in the production of quality cotton with high levels of water efficiency.

Crop Consultants Australia Inc (CCA) is the national association

covering agronomists working in the cotton industry throughout

NSW and Queensland. CCA commenced surveying its members

Even though large scale planting of Bt cotton started a decade ago, consequences on a landscape-scale have hardly been studied. Helicoverpa armigera and H.

In the autumn of 2011, CRDC identified that the forecast of a second consecutive La Nina year represented a potential disease risk to the cotton industry that was linked to the over-winter management of weeds, ratoon

Two ambitious objectives were set for this project.

Attendance and presention of my paper on long-term cotton experiments and changes in soil organic carbon in Australian cotton soils at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Increasing competition on supply of fresh water for irrigation by agricultural, domestic, sports and industrial users demands water use efficient irrigation methods and compliance with environmental regulations.