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AGENDA

Fifth Australian Cotton Conference Hotel Conrad and Jupiters Casino Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Queensland

Organised by the Australian Cotton Q--owers Research Association Incorporated (ACGRA)

T H E M E:- THE AUSTRALIAN COTTON INDUSTRY UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

Tuesday Aygust 7th 1990

12 noon - Registration desk opens

6:30pn - 8:30~- Welccme cocktails at Hotel Conrad - Presentation by Queensland Youth Choir - Dinner at own arrangements.

Wednesday August 8th 1990 7am

8: 15am

8:20am

8:20am

8:30am

8:40am

- Registration desk re-opens

- Welcane and opening by Richard Williams (A03RA) (Chairman of Conference Organising Comnittee) - Varieties and Diseases

- Chairman -

Alan Brirrblecqri?e

(Chai ^{nnan -} Queensland Cotton ^Ho l di ng.s ^{Pt y} Lt~)

- John Grellman (Cotton Grower, Merah North) - Are the growers' needs being met?

- Agronomics, earliness, blight, lodging.

- Bruce Pyke (Consultant - Biloela) - The raingrown needs.

- Dr Danny Llewellyn (CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, canberra)

- Update on genetic engineering

- The achievements and the possibilities

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9: 15am

9:25am

9:45am

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- Dr Nonn Thanson (CSlRO Cotton Research Unit, Myall Vale)

- Challenges to the plant breeder.

- Bill McDonnell (Agroncmist - Cotton Seed Distributors Ltd., Wee Waa)

- Current varietal performance and new ccrrmercial lines.

- Dr Stephen Allen (NSW Agriculture & Fisheries, Myall Vale)

- The World of Disease - pathological, breeding, management.

- QUESTION TIME 10am - 10:40am - Morning Tea 10:40am

10:40am

10:50am

11:10am

11:25arn

11: 45am

- Marketing. Monetary Issues and Econgnics - Chainnan - Mr John Blood (Chainnan Cotton

Research Council)

- Jim Prendergast (Namoi Cotton Co-operative Ltd., Wee Waa)

- The Fundamentals of classing.

- HVl, types

- Ray Butler (Cotlook Ltd. - Liverpool, United Kingdcm)

- The World Outlook

Production - Consl.IT'Ption, prices

- John Chatterton (Chief General Manager) Australian Banking

Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney)

- How to manage finances - day to day problems·

- Stephen Wyatt (Merrill Lynch (Australia) Pty.

Ltd, Sydney)

- Mechanics of Marketing

- Futures, currencies, options

- Trevor Dawson (Managing Director - Rocklea Spinning Mills, Melbourne)

- Expanding Australian Opportunities.

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12 noon - Panel Discussion

- Previous speakers, representatives of processors and marketers - panel to address list of

questions.

12:30pm - 2pm - Lunch in International Showroan.

2pm - Agronany

- Chairman - Walt Bickett (Managing Director Auscott Ltd.)

2pm - Brian Hearn (CSIRO Cotton Research Unit, Myall Vale)

- Rainfed cotton.

- The risks, probabilities and management.

2:15pm - Ben Coulton (Cotton Grower, Goondiwindi) - Options with limited water.

2:25pm - Dr Greg Constable (NSW Agriculture & Fisheries, Myall Vale)

- N rate and Pix.

2:40pm - Dr John Freney (CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra)

- The fate of your N fertiliser.

2:50i:m - John Holland (NSW Agriculture & Fisheries, Tarrworth)

- Micronutrients - are they a problem?

3i:m - Ian Daniel ls (NSW Agriculture & Fisheries, Myal 1 Vale)

- Update on soilpak.

3: 10pm - QUESTION TIME 3:30pm - 4:15pm- Afternoon tea

4: 15pm - 5: 45pm- Grower /Researcher Forun - "Ear 1 i ness"

- Chairn18n - Dr Vic Edge (NSW Agriculture &

Fisheries, Rydalmere)

- Vice Chairman - Geoff Brown (President) NSW Cotton Consultant's Assn

Wee Waa.

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Resource Speakers for "Earliness" Forum include:-

Dr David Parvin (USA)

Dr Greg Constable (NSW Agriculture & Fisheries) Mr Neil Forrester (NSW Agriculture & Fisheries) Dr Barbara Nowack (Centre for Environnental

Toxicology, Sydney)

Mr Brian Hearn (CSIRO Cotton Research Unit) Ms Marie McCaskill (Australian Cotton

Foundation)

Dr Gary Fitt (CSIRO Cotton Research Unit)

Dr Peter Cull (Irrigation Management and Cotton Consultant, Narrabri)

7:30pm for 8pm - Conference Dinner at Hotel Conrad and Jupiters Casino.

- Fashion Parade - courtesy of Australian Cotton Foundation.

- Researcher of the Year Awards.

- Guest Speaker - The Hon. John Kerin M.P.

Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

Thursday August 9th 1990

7am 8: 15am

8: 15am

8:25am

8:35am

8:45arn

- Registration desk re-opens

- Envirornieotal and Ccrrm..ioity Issues

- Chairman - Ian Hunt (Chairman N~i Cotton Co-operative Ltd.)

- Peter Cone (NSW Agriculture & Fisheries, QJnnedah)

- Regulations and the farmer.

- Dr.Richard Whyte (State Pollution Control Camlission, Bathurst)

- Protecting our waterways.

- Nick Woods (The Centre for Pesticide Application and Safety, Gatton College, Qld.)

- Drift and buffers.

- Jim Watt (AVCA, Sydney) - Co-operation.

8:55arn - 9:05am- QUESTION TIME

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9:20am

9:35arn

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- Ms Louise Sylvan (Australian ConsLmers Association, Sydney)

- Consl.ll'ler Concerns

- Dr. Helen Caldicott (Byron Bay)

- The Environnental and Conrunity Concerns - Mrs Myrna Harris (Rowena)

- A Cotton fcrnily's view.

- Dr Lyn Clarke (Area Medical Superintendent, Moree)

- A caimunity health view

- Dr Peter Twine (Qld. Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane)

- Alternatives and consequences 10:15am-10:30am- QUESTION TIME

10:30am-11:10am- Mornin9 tea

11: 10am

11:10am

11: 30am

11:45am

12 noon

12: 1 Oi:rn

12: 15pm to

12:45pm

- Industry Issues

- Chairman - Ralph Schulze (AGE/ACGRA) - Brent Oennar (Robins MBS (QLD) Pty. Ltd.,

Brisbane)

Steven Green (Minet Asricultural Insurance Brokers Pty. Ltd., Sydney)

- Industry hail scheme.

- Ms Maree McCaskill (Australian Cotton Foundation, Sydney)

- New objectives of restructured ACF.

Public relations and praTOting cotton.

- Richard Williams (A03RA)

- The new R & D corporation for cotton.

- David Dow l i ng (Edi tor , Cotton Grower Magaz. i ne, Toowoanba)

- Industry directions?

- Kees Verbeek (Washington, USA)

- Ccmnents fran International Cotton Advisory Coomittee ( ICAC)

- URGENT ISSUES AND QUESTION TIME 12:45 - 2:15µn - BBQ - Pavilion Lawn.

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2:40pn

2:55pn

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3:20pm

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- Entarolosy

- Chainnan - Richard Willians (ACGRA)

(Chairman of Conference Organising Cgnnittee) - Dr Joanne Daly (CSIRO Division of Entarology,

Canberra)

- Ecological genetics of heliothis.

- Dr Gary Fitt (CSIRO Cotton Research Unit, Myall Vale)

- Ecology of heliothis, checking methods.

- Dave Murray (QLD Department of Primary Industries, Toowoarba)

- Heliothis dynamics on Darling Downs.

- Ian Titmarsh (QLD Department of Primary Industries, Toowoarba)

- Pests in rainfed cotton.

- Neil Forrester (NSW Agriculture & Fisheries, Mya 11 Va le)

- Resistance management.

- Lewis Wilson (CSIRO Cotton Research Unit, Myall Vale)

- MITES

3:35pm - 4pm - QVESTIQN TIME 4pm - 4:15pn - Conference closure 4:15pm - Afternoon tea

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AUSTRALIAN COTTON CONFERENCE BOOKLET, 1990 CONTENTS:

PAGES

VARIETIES AND DISEASES

1 - 11 15 - 22

23 - 26

27 - 29

31 - 35 37 - 41 43 - 47

49 - 53

55 - 59 61 - 66 67 - 72

73 - 76 77 - 82

J.P. Grellman B. Pyke

P. Reid N. Thomson D.]. Llewellyn Y.L. Cousins B.R. Lyon E.S. Dennis W.J. Peacock

B.R. Lyon Y.L. Cousins D.]. Llewellyn

J.L.

Huppatz E.S. Dennis

W.J.

Peacock

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Millar E.S. Dennis

N.J.

Thomson

N.J.

Thomson P.E. Reid G. Mann P.E. Reid

N.J.

Thomson W. McDonnell S.]. Al len

] . F. Brown S.]. Allen G.A. Constable G. Harden

].K. Kochman D.G. Bunn E.W.R. Barlow

Are the Growers Needs Being Met Varieties - The Dryland Needs

Prospects for the Genetic Engineering of Heliothis Resistant Cotton Varieties

Genetic Engineering of Cotton for Resistance to Herbicides

Studying the Genes Switched on During Flooding

Challenges to a Plant Breeder The Australian Cotton Cultivar Trial Result for the last Two Seasons

Progess in Breeding for Verticillium Wilt Tolerance

Current Varietal Perf~rmance and New Commercial Lines

The World of Disease£ Pathology, Breeding and Management

Mycorrhizas and Plant Nutrition:

Long Fallow Disorder and Cotton Premature Senescence of Cotton

Improving Cotton Establishment wi th Seed Priming

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MARKETING, MONETARY ISSUES

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ECONOMICS

83 - 87 89 - 93 95 - 104 105 - 113 115 - 121 123 - 127 129 - 133 AGRONOMY 135 - 144 145 - 153

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171 - 175 177 - 180 181 - 185

187 - 193 195 - 200

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T. Dawson P.G. Cox A.B. Hearn

P.G. Cox

A.B. Hearn G.D. Keef er

G. Constable

E. Humphreys

J.R .

Freney G.A. Constable

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I .] . Rochester A.S. Hodgson

I. Daniells D.L. Larsen J.M. Kirby

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Bourne G. Mcintyre G. Charles

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Fundamentals of Classing The World Outlook

Managing Finances

Marketing Cotton - Selling Avenues for the Grower

Expanding Australian Opportunities A Simple Spreadsheet Model of the Area of Irrigated Cotton to Plant

the Role of Economics in Australian Cotton Research

Prospects for Rain-Fed Cotton Usefulness of Rainfall Records in Predicting Long term Viability of Raingrown Cotton

Management of Cotton with Nitrogen and Pix

The Fate of Your N Fertilizer

Micronutrients - Are They Important Under Waterlogging?

Update on Soilpak

The Soilpak Project, Current and Future Developments

Strength and Compression of a Range of Cotton Soils and Relevance to Soil Management Watershed - An Irrigation Scheduling Package

Weeds, A Costly Squatter?

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G. E. Dillon G.P. Fitt G.P. Fitt A. Pinkerton

V.A. Drake G.P. Fitt Marc Coombs

Regulations and the Farmer Protecting our Waterways Drift

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Buffers

Co-Operation

Consumers and New Environmental Awareness

NCIS Loss Assessment Procedures Objectives of the Restructured Australian Cotton Foundation The New Research & Development Corporation

Industry Directions?

Ecological Genetics of Heliothis

A Heliothis Identification Kit

Reappraisal of Sampling Procedures for Heliothis spp. in Cotton

A Mark-Recapture Study of

Heliothis Movement from A Source Crop in the Namoi Valley

Studies of Heliothis Mobility at Narrabri - Summer 1989/90

Flight and Dispersal Capacities of Heliothis Armi~era and

H. Punctigera Adu ts

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327 - 335

337 - 344 345 - 349

351 355 357 - 359 361 368 369 - 374

375 - 380 381 - 388 389 - 397

399 - 402 403 - 404

405 - 413 415 - 419

G.P. Fitt P. Gregg M. Zalucki P. Twine P. Gregg G.P. Fitt M. Zalucki P. Twine M. Dillon G.P. Fitt D. Murray

I. Ti tmarsh I. Ti tmarsh B. Scholz

N.W. Forrester

R.V. Gunning M.E. Balfe

R.V. Gunning

L.J.

^Wilson

P.W. Walker M. Zalucki

P. Twine

R.E. Teakle C.S. Zhen M. Rice

A. L. McColl R.M. Noble R. Noble

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Studies of the Ecology of Heliothis spp. in Inland

Australia: What Relevance to the Cotton Industry?

Evidence for Spring Migration of

Heliothis spp. from Inland Australia to Cotton Areas

Heaps: A Regional Model of Heliothis Population Dynamics Heliothis Dynamics on the Darling Downs

Pests in Rainfed Cotton

Can Egg Parasites be Used ~or

Heliothis Management in Cotton?

Resistance Management in Australian Cotton

Pyrethroid Resistance Mechanisms in Heliothis Armigera

Biochemical Resistance Detection in H. Armigera

Mites - Guidelines for

Management and Future Prospects Disruption of Sexual Communication in the Pink Spotted Bollworm,

Pectinophora Scutigera (Holdaway), with Synthetic Pheromone

Microbial-Chemical Insecticide Mixtures

Studies on the Efficacy and

Durability of Azadirachtin Sprays on Cotton Against Heliothis

Armigera

Measuring Cotton Plant Resistance to Helicoverpa Armigera

Effects of Larval Diet on the Fatty Acids of Adult Helicoverpa Armigera

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ADDENDUM

R.R. Schulze' ]. Campbell

ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMMUNITY

ISSUES

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Australian Cotton Research 1990 Australian Rural Research in Progress

Alternatives and Consequences