Fact Sheets

This fact sheet provides growers with guidelines for monitoring  soil and plant nutrient status.

The CottonInfo regional development officers have been conducting nitrogen trials across the cotton growing valleys to 'ground truth' nitrogen research. This paper, presented at the 17th Australian Cotton Conference in 2014, outlines the team's findings. For more, visit the crop nutrition page of this site. 

The CottonInfo team, along with researchers, developed this paper for the 17th Australian Cotton Conference in 2014. It outlines the work the industry is doing to develop a carbon footprint calculator for cotton farms, to determine carbon sequestration and emissions associated with agricultural production.

This fact sheet outlines the identification of cotton leaf roll dwarf virus in Timor Leste, and the best practice measures Australian growers should be aware of to protect against it.

This fact sheet outlines the importance of crop destruction and pupae busting in managing resistance risk in Bt cotton.

The control of unwanted volunteer and ratoon cotton is an essential part of good integrated pest and disease management.

Irrigated cotton growers stand to make substantial savings in fuel and greenhouse gas emissions in tractor operations if appropriate tractor engine and ground speeds are used and tillage depth is kept to the shallowest that is suitable for the task. This fact sheet outlines what growers need to know. 

A comprehensive testing program of conventional large mixed flow pumps typically used on cotton irrigation farms has found that these pumps, if correctly tuned, can operate at high efficiency levels with reduced energy costs and lower carbon emissions. This fact sheet outlines the findings of the testing from NCEA.

 

Lifting and moving water around farms with pumping systems for irrigation consumes plenty of energy as water is a heavy liquid. This fact sheet outlines the fundamentals of energy use in pumping water.