OBJECTIVES (i) To evaluate the reliability of current SIR.A TAC sampling procedures and conversion equations relating proportion infestation to mean number of insects per plant.

Aims: *Use data which relates mite numbers to yield loss in order to derive and test action thresholds.

In my paper on the fundamentals of Classing I would like to outline both the traditional style classing and the modern high volume instrument classing.

Last year I spent several months at Rothamsted Experimental Station in the U.K., as a Churchill Fellow, studying biochemical toxicology in H.

The past season has been 11 abnormal 11 - how do we define a 11 normal" one? - but abnormal in the sense that significant shifts in trading patterns have occurred.

As most cotton is exported the cotton industry has a high exposure to exchange rate fluctuations.

During the 1988/89 cotton season trials were conducted to evaluate the potential of synthetic pheromones to control the pink -spotted boll worm, Pectinophora scutigera, by mating disruption

For a long time, pest control In the cotton industry has depended on a narrow range of broad-spectrum insecticides.

It is already well established that sprays containing the ultra-safe pesticide azadirachtin are very effective in reducing egg-laying Heliothis spp. in cotton in the field

Many cotton growers are asking Why can't Australian cotton mills spin more cotton?" Many hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton are imported into Australia as finished yarns and fabrics - why can't th

The aim of this project was to develop a mass screening technique for the selection of cotton plant antibiosis resistance (AR) to H. armigera.

The SOILpak project so far has concentrated on the grey and brown cracking clay soils used for cotton production.

Selection of the area of irrigated cotton to plant is a perennial problem.

The aim of the present work was to assess if the fatty acid profiles of moths are useful in establishing different larval dietary histories

This paper summarises a large number of strength and compression tests in a range of cotton soils.

Very few economists are employed in Australian cotton research.

With current Australian cotton production around 1.25 million bales this equates to C.R.C. research expenditure of A$3.2 to 3.5 million per year - allowing for reserves, administration, etc. These C.R.C.

WATERSCHED has been developed by research and extension agronomists from the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and uses a water balance approach to schedule irrigations.