Images from NASA Earth of swollen Fitzroy River - before and after earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150814/…

The guys from Parabug releasing Hyarti parasitic wasps to help control Silver Leaf Whitefly in cotton- this mean the SLW won’t leave a sticky honeydew on the cotton fibre , making it hard to spin

This deep sowing took a while to come up.

Have you seen aphids & also may have seen these mottling leaves? We did not see them last few years, but Cotton Bunchy Top is really out and about in many fields we went in. Thankss Murray Sharman for prompt confirmation with cool DNA-based LAMP technique.

Bit of a problem, this. Methane from Australian coal and gas could be 60% higher than estimated theguardian.com/environment/20… Adam Morton #auspol

The third #rhabdovirus publication from the lab in the past 12 months. They certainly pop up everywhere! The American Phytopathological Society APS Virology Committee Ava Wait Ashish Srivastava Arkansas Entomology and Plant Pathology A Novel, Divergent Member of the Rhabdoviridae Infects Strawberry | Plant Disease apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PD…

Not a great time of year for a camping trip to Bedout Island. The Bedout Island weather station data went offline at 9:30pm last night after this ten-minute period, with gusts of 289km/h four times over 10 min. It probably got blown away at that point.

Australian cotton researchers are all about upskilling. Australian Cotton Science

That's not a large log in the Ord river. No thanks for a swim.

Cotton grows fast in the tropics! Kununurra cotton. Australian Cotton Science, CottonInfo

Northern Australia presents unique opportunities for cotton breeders, but also unusual risks. Australian Cotton Science, CottonInfo

A bit of pathology going on in some cotton paddocks today in far north QLD. Investigating leaf spots and other stuff with Dr Linda Smith and Samuel Krebeker. Australian Cotton Science , CottonInfo

Gossypium sturtianum in pub carpark, Hawker, South Australia. Not a plant I was expecting to see this far south!

Kaitlyn Bissonnette (US Cotton Incorporated) sharing the challenges in US cotton at the AACS conference. Australian Cotton Science

🩲🌱 SOIL YOUR UNDIES NOW🩲🌱 If you bury some 100% cotton undies this week/end you can dig them up in 7-8 weeks time on World Soil Day (Dec 5) + get an excellent measure of microbial activity in your dirt! REO in the Gwydir Janelle Montgomery did just that this morning-stay tuned!

Very interesting talk from David Guest about using dogs to sniff for Phytophthora infections Plant Pathogens (APPS) #2023APPSAdelaide

NEMATODE MONDAY Good visiting with Dinesh Kafle Dinesh Kafle to discuss his reniforn nematode project w/t the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries in Queensland at the poster session of the AustralAsian Plant Pathology Conference in Adelaide Plant Pathogens (APPS) #2023APPSAdelaide

After about 120 talks and probably greater than 2000 slides of high quality plant pathology research, questions and challenges, that's a wrap for #2023APPSAdelaide. Plant Pathogens (APPS)