• MYCORRHIZAS IN COTTON 

  Nehl, D.B.; Brown, J.F. (1992-08-11)

  Question: When is a cotton plant not a cotton plant? Answer: All the time. Healthy cotton plants are always part of a mycorrhiza.
• VERTICILLIUM WILT 

  Allen, Stephen (1992-08-11)

  Verticillium wilt of cotton is caused by a fungus (Verticillium dahliae) that infects the host plant via the roots and colonises the vascular system. Symptoms therefore include a brown discoloration of the vascular tissue ...
• PREMATURE SENESCENCE OF COTTON: CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS 

  Harden, G. (1992-08-11)

  A widespread problem of premature defoliation and physiological cut out of cotton has occurred in the Emerald Irrigation Area since the early 1980s. The problem was particularly severe in 1988 and 1989. This premature ...
• COTTON - A DECADE AND MORE OF COMMERCIAL CROP PERFORMANCE 

  Mcintyre, Geoff; Marshall, John (1992-08-11)

  Documentation of crop yields and varieties in the Toowoomba Royal Agricultural Show Irrigated Crops Competition since 1972 demonstrates the great advances achieved by cotton breeders as new varieties have been introduced ...
• COTTON VARIETY YIELD PERFORMANCE OVER A RANGE OF PLANTING DATES 

  Wells, Tony (1992-08-11)

  During the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons planting date experiments were carried out at Narrabri Agricultural Research Station using a range of cotton varieties. These experiments form part of an on-going program to investigate ...
• GROWING PIMA IN AUSTRALIA A PERSPECTIVE THE TANDOU EXPERIENCE 

  Smith, Bob; Gourlay, Andrew (1992-08-11)

  Encouraged by a trial 1/2 acre result of 2.8 bales per acre from the 1990 cotton pick, Tandou has grown 70 acres in 1991 and 850 acres in 1992 installing one roller gin to process the 1991 crop and expanding the gin this ...
• Managing Nitrogen - Dentitrification 

  Freney, J.R.; Rochester, I.J.; Constable, , G.A. (1992-08-11)

  Farmers in Australia apply between 80 and 200 kg N ba-1 to cotton, but only part of this nitrogen is taken up and used by the crop, and the remainder is lost :from the plantsoil system. Our work at Narrabri with 15N labelled ...
• MANAGING COTTON GROWTH 

  Constable, Greg (1992-08-11)

  In the majority of cases, growers do not have a problem with excessive vegetative growth in their cotton crops. It is more likely that a field is not growing to potential. Factors which have a big bearing on early season ...
• Can we be more accurate with N rates ? 

  Constable, Greg; Rochester, Ian (1992-08-11)

  Nitrogen management has to be good for best yields, but factors such as soil condition, irrigation and pest management may have greater effects on cotton yield than N rate. We have had much improved cotton yields in the ...
• Varietal Response to Irrigation and Nitrogen 

  Kruizinga, Jack; Wells, Tony (1992-08-11)

  An experiment was conducted at Narrabri Agricultural Research Station during the 1991-92 season to investigate the response of a range of currently available cotton varieties to irrigation and nitrogen treatments. This ...
• GROWING PIMA IN AUSTRALIA A Perspective 

  Buster, Stephen (1992-08-11)

  The question is asked - Why grow Pima in A ustraha? There are different answers. The most obvious is the economic consideration, then there is the challenge of doing something new and different. For the sake of this ...
• IMPROVED PROCEDURES FOR ASSESSING COMPACTION IN COTTON SOILS - II. REFINEMENT OF METHODS FOR MEASURING SOIL STRENGTH AND POROSITY 

  McKenzie, D.C.; Koppi, Tony; McBratney, Alex (1992-08-11)

  This paper discusses recent progress with the refinement of promising methods, both direct and indirect, for measuring the severity of compaction in cracking clays used for irrigated cotton. It should be read in conjunction ...
• PRELIMINARY SOIL SALINITY ASSESSMENT IN THE LOWER NAMOI VALLEY 

  Triantafilis, John; McBratney, Alex (1992-08-11)

  In the arid and semi-arid regions of the world, irrigation has enabled previously unarable tracts of land to be used for a wide variety of agricultural activities. Unfortunately many of these areas have associated with ...
• AGENDA SIXTH AUSTRALIAN COTTON CONFERENCE 

  ACGRA (1992-08-11)
• BED SYSTEMS 

  Anthony. David (1992-08-11)

  In surface irrigation systems we use beds rather than growing thee crop on the flat for several reasons. The two most important reasons are to assist in the control of water and to avoid water-logging of the cotton; a ...
• ACGRA COMMITTEE MEMBERS AS AT JULY 1ST, 1992 

  ACGRA (1992-08-11)
• FIBER CHARACTERISTICS - VALUE/VARIETIES 

  Niles, G.A. (1992-08-11)

  Assessment of cotton fiber quality has undergone a significant change during the past several years. The older, traditional practice of assessing quality by color, trash and preparation has been progressively replaced by ...
• MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR RAW COTTON 

  Worrall, Iain (1992-08-11)

  Macquarie Agribusiness report on the market for Australian raw cotton includes an overview of the Australian and world cotton industry.
• NEW APPROACHES TO :MEASURING AND EXPLAINING THE CONCEPT OF MATURITY 

  Gordon, Stuart G.; Leeder, John D.; Steadman, Robert G. (1992-08-11)

  Cotton fibre maturity has several definitions. Synonymous with ripeness, maturity may be that property which increases with the reproductive power of the seed, signalling to the plant that the seed containing part is ready ...
• A PRELIMINARY STUDY ON THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF AUSTRALIAN COTTONSEED AND THE RELEVANCE OF COTTONSEEDAS A FEEDSTUFF FOR RUMINANT AND MONOGASTRIC LIVESTOCK 

  Yu, Feng; Barry, T.N.; Moughan, P.J.; Wilson, G.F. (1992-08-11)

  A three year investigation is being undertaken at Massey University to study the effect of condensed tannins, heat and solvent extraction upon the nutritive value of cottonseed meal for ruminant and monogastric farm animals. ...

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