April - May 2004: Vol. 25, No. 2

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Contents
8 Preventing failures in ring tanks
14 Honey bee crop dusters plug a gap in Bt cotton defences
16 Improving on the Cotton Trade Show
18 Cereal supercrops give cotton benefits
20 'European style' production benefits
22 Legal challenges launched against water sharing changes
   
Precision farming feature
23 Precision Agriculture: An extension of agronomy
25 The balloon goes up on crop monitoring
28 Starfire brings high repeatability to precision ag
35 Challenger Auto-guide boosts farm productivity and profits
36 A practical side to soil moisture monitoring
36 About Gyp-Flo
   
38 Kerby on Bollgard II management
40 Australian rainfall and the MJO
58 Vetch improves the productivity of irrigated cotton
62 Cotton industry announces national awards competition
64 Managing Malvaceae weeds - cotton's relatives
68 Black gold on the Darling Downs
 
Leading edge
70 Wanted - machinery research dollars
71 How wet's our planet
   
Regular features
2 Editorial
4 Cotton Research Roundup
   
Marketing
44 World Commodity Watch
46 The World Cotton Market
49 New York Futures outlook
50 The changing face of cotton trade
53 Australian cotton: How good is it really?
   
66 Classic Tractor Tales: Green tea and orange tractors
79 Germinating Ideas
81 News & New Products
83 District Reports


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