Cotton farmers have been adapting and changing their farming systems for as long as cotton has been grown. New machinery, new technology and streamlined management have all assisted in this process.

In the race for market share, the cotton industry faces strong competition from chemical fibres.

The relationship between early season insecticide use and later outbreaks of aphids was investigated in three field experiments.

Polymeria longjfolia (Polymeria take-all or Peak Downs curse)is a native Australian species.

Lablab was grown in two field experiments at Narrabri, NSW.

In a cool, wet season when conditions are favourable for the Verticillium dahliae fungal pathogen, Verticillium wilt disease can cost the Australian cotton industry millions of dollars in lost production.

Sustainability in any farming system is dependent upon a number of interacting factors which include climate, soil quality, plant nutrition, management, weed and disease incidence, and economic factors (Greenland and

When breeders cross two cotton varieties together there are millions of potential new combinations of genes that are generated in the progeny from the two parent plants.

Fusarium wilt is a destructive disease of cotton which occurs in many cotton growing areas of the world, including; south-eastern USA, Egypt, Tanzania and China.

We have carried out one season of experiments on plant growth regulators that have not been used commercially in the Australian industry before (Glycinebetaine, Gibberellic acid and PGR TV) and compared these to Pix.

The confirmation of Fusarium wilt in a field north of Moree daring the 1996/7 season jolted the cotton industry.

It is very important to understand the nature of the phenomena which have been collectively characterised as the 'Asian financial crisis' or the 'Asian meltdown'.

The term &quote;equity&quote; in the context of natural resource management refers to a sense of fairness in the allocation of the resource to users' Fairness in the meaning that the spectrum of resour

Groundwater is water that has drained through the soil and accumulated at depth within the deeper subsoil or in bedrock.

There is speculation that current secondary pests of cotton may be more troublesome following the introduction of transgenic cotton.

Cotton-trash and feedlot-manure has been processed by composting worms over three months to produce vermicompost, an organic residue reputed to improve soil conditions for plant growth.

In managing insect pests growers are today faced with increasing insecticide resistance, a lack of new chemistry and increasing production costs.

Even though the Australian cotton industry is based on a high input irrigated system, there is an increasingly significant area of dryland cotton.

The major focus of the Australian cotton industry for pest management is to reduce the dependence on synthetic insecticides.

The green mind, Creontiades dilutes (Stal) (Hemiptera: Miridae), is an important but sporadic pest of cotton which destroys small squares on cotton plants (Pyke and Brown, 1996).