Trial picking underway in the Ord. #ordcott #cotton20 @CropNorthern Penelope Goldsmith Paul Grundy

Dirt, diesel and hydraulic fun.

Radiation constraints are something that people rarely have to think about in sunny southern Australia. With this work we tried to get a better handle on the impact of cloud and how crop growth and yield would respond so that the risk of shading might be mitigated.

Interesting 😬

Why are Aussies cotton cultivars so good-IW Factors responsible for yield improvement in new Gossypium hirsutum L.... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Strip tilling a sprayed out #covercrop with some fert. Getting ready for #cotton21 #soilhealth

Great collaboration with @BayerAG and others on spirotetramat resistance in silverleaf whitefly, mechanism discovery and mode of inheritance. You can read the article here sciencedirect.com/science/articl… . This research has implications for the resistance mgmt. of SLW. @CRDC

Moth traps as part of biosecurity surveillance for pink bollworm are now out at the gin sites processing northern cotton. Biosecurity matters #IYPH2020

First fruit retention trial setup for this season at Comet. Quite a few more to go.

Another retention trial site being set up. This one at Norwood, Moree.

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Surrounded by very handy rain grown cotton in NQ earlier this week