Agriculture is now recognised to be among the highest risk industry groups for occupational injury and disease.

The aim of the project outlined here is to try and develop the SOLICON techniques that are already being used by soil researchers in order to find a practical technique available to cotton consultants or agronomists (

Insecticide resistance continues to be a major problem for the cotton grower. It also is the focus of much of the research into the use and management of transgenic plants.

One of the few aspects of our industry that is controllable is injury to people.

Various parasitoids of heliothis have been considered in integrated pest management programs throughout the world.

Having previously identified poor N recovery as largely a denitrification problem, research began to investigate means of reducing N loss.

Resistance to some carbamate insecticides ( methomyl and carbaryl) in H. armigera is has been known since 1983. But at that time no resistance to thiodicarb (also a carbamate) was identified.

In common with about 80% of all plants, cotton forms VAM (vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizas). VAM are associations of soil-borne fungi with the roots of plants.

The residual action of nine insecticides commonly used in cotton were assessed on the survival of the native egg parasitoid Trichogramma funiculatum by exposing adult wasps to sprayed cotton leaves 1, 3, 5, 7, 1 O and

During the 1970s and 1980s organophosphates (OPs), particularly monocrotophos (first tested 1969-70, registered 1972-73) and profenofos (first tested 1973-74, registered 1978-79), were the mainstay of mite control for

A great proportion of the Helicoverpa eggs laid onto cotton never hatch. They are either eaten by predators, dislodged from the plant by wind and rain, killed by climatic extremes, or are infertile.

During the past two seasons, cotton crops growing in Queensland have been surveyed for diseases. In March 1993 specimens of wilted cotton were collected from the Brookstead area of the Darling Downs.

Pix is now in common use to manage vegetative growth of cotton in Australia. I presented a paper at the 1992 ACGRA Conference detailing how to evaluate potential responses to Pix.

HOW IT RELATES TO THE CONCEPT OF BEST PRACTICE, WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF THE TOP PERFORMERS

Two years ago, the computer program entomoLOGIC 1 was first made widely available to cotton growers and consultants.

Black root rot is caused by the fungus Thielaviopsis basicola (Berk. & Broome) Ferraris.

Compensation is the ability of the plant or crop to offset damage caused by pests or other factors such as hail. Compensation can act at the plant or crop levels.

Agriculture can change the hydrologic balance of a landscape either through a change from native vegetation or the addition of water by irrigation or both.

Irrigation is used to negate the climatic irregularities of rainfall.

The good news is that nutgrass can be controlled. The bad news is that successful control is a long-term venture.