April - May 2010: Vol. 31, No. 2

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Contents
10 Fashioning the Future at the 15th Cotton Conference
13 Safeguarding cotton plant health - prevention is better than cure
16 Cotton Catchment Communities CRC extending to the future
18 The Solenopsis mealybug outbreak in Emerald
22 Predators control the burdekin's mealybugs
   
Precision farming/guidance feature
23 Giving Australian farmers The Edge
24 Precision agriculture: Dipping your toes in, without getting wet!
26 Harvest doc for healthy crop
 
Ginning and fibre quality series
32 Cleaner modules create favourable processing settings for higher returns
   
Water Matters
36 Irrigators benefiting from national training course
   
38 North Star cotton under centre pivot
40 Meeting growing demand for high quality cotton from Chinese spinning mills
44 Irrigated corn roots can contribute to soil carbon stocks in grey clays
 
Regular features
 
2 Editorial
4 Cotton Research Roundup
   
Marketing
28 World Commodity Watch
30 The World Cotton Market
   
46 Classic Tractor Tales: The Glasgow
50 Germinating Ideas
52 District Reports


Every year, Greenmount Travel hosts a number of International Farm Study Tours to different agriculturally rich areas of the world.

2010 tours include:

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

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