Overall reasons for travel to the USA include: Participate in a visit to the Valent Company to investigate growth regulators for future cotton research; visit with Cotton Inc.

The broad aim of the ‘UNE/CRDC Cotton Course’ has been to provide students with the necessary scientific and practical skills for sustainable cotton production.

CRDC 2015/16 Summer Scholarships (S/S ) Purpose- Strategic Plan Targets 1.Farmers 2. Industry 3.Customers 4. People 5.Performance Summer Scholarship Programme - 8 weeks

Current nutrient management strategies are based primarily on the concept of cost effective nutrient management (i.e.

Represention of CRDC role as the Co-Ordinator of the 2015/16 AES School based trainees programme.

The 2nd Australian Cotton Research Conference was held in Toowoomba at University of Southern Queensland, from 8-10 September 2015.

In 2008 the Cotton CRC invested in an Education Officer, Trudy Staines, for 5 years to promote science and agriculture in schools.

This project is part of the Wincott Development program for women in cotton.

This research PhD study is required to intensively study molecular genetic techniques to better understand and then detect neonicotinoid resistance in cotton aphid.Since the introduction of Bt-cotton, secondary pests

The Improving energy efficiency on irrigated Australian cotton farms project has developed resources for cotton growers to reduce their energy consumption, updated the cotton industry's myBMP energy module, deliv

The cotton industry relies on GM cotton expressing insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). This provides resistance to key pests of cotton, the bollworm Helicoverpa armigera and the native budworm H.

This project built on many years of weeds work supported by CRDC and value added to earlier research, while providing strategic information to growers in support of MyBMP, based around updating WEEDpak.

The Australian Rural Leadership Foundation was established in 1992 based on the premise that developing leaders in rural, regional and remote Australia could influence change across organisations, industries as a whol

The drought from 2006/07 through 2008/09 seriously impacted the Australian ginning sector. A large number of experienced people left the industry due to the short seasons and having only a handful of gins operating.

Seedbed Media was appointed to provide communications support for CottonInfo’s Carbon Farming extension and outreach project.

Cotton growers spend thousands of dollars annually monitoring insect pests and beneficials. The information generated from monitoring is used to make pest control decisions.

Ecosystem services are the benefits that humans get from the environment. Many ecosystem services are relevant to cotton production (e.g.

Bee hives are sometimes placed near cotton fields where there is a risk that they will be exposed to pesticides such as fipronil.

Water is the most limiting input in irrigated cotton production. Compaction reduces access to the soil water resource and reduces soil health.

This project supported the training and development of auditors for myBMP, the refinement of the myBMP auditing framework, and rationalisation and clarification of practices to be audited.