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December - January, 2007: Volume 27 Issue 7

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CONTENTS

6 Setting the record straight on cotton’s water use
8 Wanted alive: Large Helicoverpa larvae from Bollgard ii plants
12 Your crop has just received spray drift! — What do you do now?
16 Delving deeper into the high yielding crops


Irrigation Feature

23 Water Matters — Variable application of irrigation water
28 Furrow evaluation improves irrigation efficiency
34 Irrigation trials target improved efficiency on the Downs
36 Measuring and maximising water use efficiency
38 Tracking water on irrigation farms
46 Major upgrade for cotton nutrition tools
48 Efficient use of Nitrogen fertilisers
53 Managing for crop maturity
57 Relative profitability of irrigated cotton rotation systems in NSW
60 How will the drought affect Helicoverpa resistance management?
64 Canopy common factor in highest grossing cotton crops

Leading edge

66 Future energy could start down on the farm

 

REGULAR FEATURES

2 Editorial
4 Cotton Research Roundup
marketing
40 World Commodity Watch
42 The World Cotton Market
44 New York Futures
68 Classic Tractor Tales: Big tractors — So what’s new?
72 Germinating Ideas
75 News & New Products
77 District Reports

Adverdtiser's Index

Agriculture Appointments 2
Agrilink 24
Agririsk 15
Apperson 64
Aquatech 35
Aquatech Irrimate 26
Aquatech Watertrack 35
Austgrains 57
Barcoo 10
Cargill Cotton 42
CE Bartlett 28
Charlton 59
Cotton Grower Services IFC
Cotton Outlook IBC
CSD 7
Darling Downs Tarps 49
Deltapine 53
DMS 5, 11
drumMUSTER 59
Dupont 61
Ellis Equipment 3
Energy Power systems 35
Excel Ag 13, insert
Felco 71
Grays Irrigation 38
Hayes Spraying 8

Howard Australia 55
Iron Lady 74
Irritek 39
Kemp Strang 33
MACE 37
McCracken Water 32
Meron Australia 30
Monsanto 21
Moree Real Estate 71
Moree Spray Equipment 57
Namoi Cotton 45
Nelson Irrigation 27
North West Ginning 47
Paul Reinhart 42
Queensland Cotton 43
Rodney Industries 36
SMK Consultants 2
Study Tours 22, 65
Sumitomo OBC
Syngenta 9, 19
Trade Show 12
Ultimate Fertilisers 61
Warrego Gypsum 5
Vanderfield 61
Valmont 25
Volvo Penta Oceania 29