February - March 2010: Vol. 31, No. 1

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Contents
8 New workplace award: Implications for Australia's cotton growers
10 Preparing for harvest to preserve fibre quality
16 If in doubt, check it out
18 Award winning irrigation software could save 800 gigalitres a year
   
Water Matters
20 Farm modernisation project launched
22 How to make sense of pump curves
   
25 Mealybugs creating problems in cotton
27 Waterlogging damages cotton crops
 
Processing and Marketing feature
30 The World Cotton Market
33 The cotton spinning industry
   
Ginning and Fibre Quality series
38 Measuring moisture in cotton
   
43 As CO2 levels rise, plants - and humans - respond
45 Carbon trading - a threat to the rural sector?
 
Regular features
 
2 Editorial
4 Cotton Research Roundup
   
Marketing
28 World Commodity Watch
   
47 Classic Tractor Tales: John Deere - the facts!
50 Germinating Ideas
52 District Reports


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2010 tours include:

  • United States
  • Eastern Europe big farms
  • Japan: Cherry blossom special
  • African Safari

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