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October-November 2023

Production, marketing and topical articles for the Australian Cotton industry.

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Feature Articles

Resistance Update – mites, aphids, Helicoverpa and SLW

A number of pests have proved challenging for crop managers. Resistance testing results have shown some key changes that will require changed approaches for management this season.

How much early season square retention is enough to maximise yield potential for Bollgard 3?

Early season retention in the lead up to flowering can be a vexed issue for some crop managers.

Differences in how cotton varieties grow, and why it’s important?

Monitoring the progress of a cotton crop is vital for ideal crop performance. To extract the most value out of this monitoring, it is important to know how the growth habits of varieties differ across the regions.

Over The Back Fence

More than one hundred scholarships awarded to boost diversity in STEM

The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) has today announced 116 scholarships to support women and diverse people to thrive in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers.

Australia at Artificial Intelligence (AI) inflection point

Australia is at a crossroads with developing AI technologies, with the potential to become a leader or laggard in technical and regulatory innovation. In a new report 13 of Australia’s top AI experts find that AI has the potential to augment, simplify and improve the way we live our lives.

Roads to Recovery Program

GrainGrowers has welcomed the Federal Government's commitment to increase the Roads to Recovery funding program. As part of the commitment announced by Minister King in mid-November, funding will be gradually increased from $500 million to a $1 billion program, which provides critical funds to local government to maintain local road networks.

CottonInfo Defoliation Booklet out now

A new CottonInfo Defoliation Booklet has been developed to help provide guidance on harvest preparation and defoliation. Download a copy of the Defoliation Booklet on the CottonInfo website. The resource will also be included in the next edition of The Australian Cottongrower.

Future focus at Keytah

On February 21, the Australian cotton industry's 2022 Bayer Grower of the Year - Sundown Pastoral Company - held its field day for more than 200 people at their Keytah operation near Moree, NSW. The field day focussed on the innovative work being done at Keytah on carbon accounting and supply chain traceability as well as field trials on bankless and automated irrigation and biochar application.