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Now showing items 119-138 of 483
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(CSIRO Plant Industry, 2006-06-30)Green mirids (Creontiades dilutus) have emerged as a significant problem in commercial Bt-cotton crops, especially in Bollgard II crops. This is believed to be due to the reduced spray regimes in these crops, which allow ...
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(Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, 2003-06-30)The primary focus of this project is to develop sustainable, IPM based pest management systems for INGARD in north-western Australia. Key elements for the system include companion crop utilisation, pest threshold refinement ...
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(CSIRO Plant Industry, 2005-06-30)Cotton growers are facing increasing pressure to manage resources more cost effectively and to be more accountable for the impact their decisions have on the surrounding environment. Decision support systems (DSS) have ...
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(CSIRO Plant Industry, 2001-06-30)Profitability of cotton production is being theathened by resource limitations and reduced margins. The impact of agronomic decisions affect profitability and many of these decisions involve a degree of risk associated ...
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(Queensland Department of Primary Industries, 2001-06-30)For many years the insect pest management research conducted by the Entomology Team at QDPI Farming Systems Institute, Toowoomba has relied on makeshift spray equipment for the application of pesticides. The investigations ...
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(Queensland Department of Primary Industries, 2005-06-30)Internationally, sticky cotton is a major concern for the textile industry (Hector & Hodkinson 1989). Physiological plant sugars in immature fibres, contaminants from crushed seed and seed coat fragments, grease, oil and ...
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(CSIRO Agricultural Flagship, 2015-06-30)In 2008 the Cotton CRC invested in an Education Officer for 5 years to promote science and agriculture in schools. The schools program was developed to enhance and expand the science and environmental management syllabus ...
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(CSIRO Agricultural Flagship, 2016-06-30)CRDC recognises that people are the cotton industry’s greatest resource. We continue to invest in the capacity and capability of people through many programs, designed to build a skilled, educated and progressive industry ...
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(CSIRO Plant Industry, 2003-06-30)In recent years water use has become an important issue for the cotton industry mainly due to prevailing drought, competition with other water users and environmental concerns. Therefore water use efficiency is a critical ...
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(University of Sydney, 2006-06-30)The Cotton Research and Development Corporation have demonstrated a strong commitment to supporting research in water use efficiency across the industry. One component of water use in irrigation is the identification of ...
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(CSIR Cotton Research Unit, 2001-06-30)Productivity of the Australian cotton industry is constantly threatened by reduced availability of irrigation water in eastern Australia. Consequently there has been considerable interest from cotton growers, with the ...
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(MKS Consulting Pty Ltd, 2001-06-30)Increasing pressure from industry and environmental sectors has begun to force the Australian cotton industry to rethink its approach to chemical application. This has led to an increase in ground-based applicators this ...
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(1998-06-30)Aims: 1. Identify the most appropriate cotton plant types or varieties for dry season production in NW Australia based on characteristics of yield, quality and maturity 2. Investigate the effects of specific agronomic/ ...
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(Department of Primary Industries Queensland, 2002-06-30)Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) and H. punctigera (Wallengren) are serious pests of cotton in Australia. These pests constitute a continually increasing production cost for most field crops, particularly cotton. At the end ...
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(The University of Sydney, 2002-06-30)Since the early 1960s, global agricultural output has increased at rates and to levels that are unprecedented in human history Much of the productivity increase is attributed to the breeding of high-yielding crop varieties, ...
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(Northern Territory Farmers Association Inc., 2019-06-30)Cotton has been looked to be a commercial crop in the Northern Territory on several occasions over the last 100 years, firstly as a wet season crop and more recently (in the last 25 years) as a dry season (winter) crop. ...
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(CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology, 2001-06-30)White specks (undyed neps) in dyed fabric samples are a quality problem that arises from neps of immature cotton. Dr Grant's research aimed to correlate the white speck neps back to fibre properties and gin parameters. The ...
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(NSW Agriculture, 2001-06-30)In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Verticillium wilt was the most widespread and important disease of cotton in Australia. The widespread adoption of CSIRO cultivars with resistance to Verticillium wilt has effectively ...
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(1990-01-31). The project (a) investigates soil physical and chemical measures relevant to the evaluation of the agricultural potential of cracking clay soils of the Namoi Valley; (b) provides laboratory data suited to the application ...
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(1995-12-30)OBJECTIVES 1. To undertake a comprehensive sutvey of the Australian distribution of B. biotype B. tabaci . 2. To sutvey cotton for the presence of B, biotype B. tabaci 3. 4. To develop and asses the usefulness of a field ...
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