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CottonInfo: Crop to Top CottonInfo
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CottonInfo is the Australian cotton industry’s joint extension program.In the Crop to Top podcast, we bring you conversations with the program's Regional Extension Officers and Technical Leads, as well as researchers and cotton growers connected to CottonInfo with a story to share.
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Biosecurity Excellence - a conversation with Sharna Holman
There’s just 6 weeks to go until the 2024 Australian Cotton Conference on Queensland’s Gold Coast!Tune in to hear more from CottonInfo’s Technical Lead for Biosecurity, Sharna Holman, about why the CottonInfo team is planning to help ‘Set the Gold Standard’ in biosecurity awareness at Conference this year.
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Factors to consider when planning a pre-emergent herbicide program with Jeff Werth
Pre-emergent (residual) herbicides are becoming increasingly important in weed control strategies but there's much to consider when planning a residual herbicide program, as they do require more planning when considering crop rotations.In this podcast we hear from QDAF's Jeff Werth on the benefits of adopting a residual herbicide program when it comes to improved overall weed control and herbicide resistance management.Jeff's recently co-authored a CottonInfo fact sheet about utilising p...
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The value of attending Irricom with Lou Gall
Irricom 2024 - CottonInfo’s third irrigation forum - will take a deep dive into understanding the Water Use Efficiency of siphon-less and bankless designs.Tune in to hear more from CottonInfo’s Technical Lead for Irrigation Lou Gall on the value of attending this event on Feb 27th in Narrabri.More details & RSVP here: Irricom 2024, Narrabri | CottonInfo
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IPM learnings, lessons and the future: a conversation with Richard Sequeira.
Welcome to Season 3 of Crop to Top and the first podcast episode for 2024.This episode was recorded on site in Emerald, Central Queensland and features a conversation between our CottonInfo Tech Lead for IPM Paul Grundy and QDAF Principal Research Scientist, Richard Sequeira.When Richard arrived in Central Queensland in 1996, the local cotton industry was in the grip of a Helicoverpa problem, then, five years later, Silverleaf whitefly exploded.In this episode, hear about Richard's expe...
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Update on the Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration with Elsie Hudson
Last year the Australian Cotton Disease Review was completed by the Centre for Crop Disease Management at Curtin University in WA and out of that … the Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (ACDC) was been given the green light from the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) board. CRDC’s Innovation Broker leading the project is Elsie Hudson and she joined the CottonInfo podcast to explain just what ACDC is and how the process to building it is shaping up.
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New guidelines for managing retention in Bollgard 3 crops
This podcast features a (virtual) round table discussion between CottonInfo’s IPM Tech Lead Paul Grundy and three CottonInfo REOs (Kieran O’Keeffe, Amanda Thomas & Janelle Montgomery) talking with Megan Woodward about the surprising trial results that formed the basis of the new guidelines - and how to best apply them.Other resources:Watch a new CottonInfo video on the research behind the guidelines - showing just how resilient cotton can be here.Access the guidelines via p9-10 of the 202...