It was May of 1984 while living in Japan; I received a call that our company had bought George H. MCFadden Co. I was told we had a 50% ownership in a gin in Australia and I was to go check it out ASAP.

Bollgard II is simply cotton with better control of Helicoverpa and the same principles of management apply to Bollgard II as for conventional cotton.

The 2003 - 04 season heralded the first full commercialisation of cotton varieties in Australia with the Bollgard II gene from Monsanto.

Uptakes of phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulphur, zinc, manganese, iron and copper were measured in an experiment evaluating nutrition of cotton in a newly developed field.

Two of the major fungal diseases of cotton in Australia are fusarium and verticillium wilts caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum. F.sp vasinfectum (Fov) and Verticillum dahliae respectively.