This fact sheet has been adapted for CottonInfo from a former Cotton Catchment Communities CRC publication. It was originally authored by CSIRO, NSW DPI, Incitec Pivot and CRDC.

The result of the trials clearly shows that within the majority of cases the amount of lint produced from the amount of N applied is outside the optimum, highlighting that there is opportunity for increased production

Nitrogen (N) nutrition of high yielding cotton crops remains one of the biggest production costs with improvement of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) being somewhat of an enigma when trying to ensure that profitability a