CottonInfo is hosting a Cotton Nutrition Tour from 8-12 February 2016, taking ten leading nutrition researchers on farm with cotton growers across five valleys - the Upper Namoi (Gunnedah); the Macquarie (Warren); Southern NSW (Griffith); Central QLD (Emerald) and the Gwydir (Moree).
The tour will visit Emerald on Thursday 11 February:
Date: Thursday 11 February
Time: 8:15am to 1pm
Location: Regional bus tour, ex-Emerald
For more: Geoff Hunter, CottonInfo regional development officer - 0458 142 777.
The tour is proudly supported by CRDC, the researchers and their organisations: UNE, USQ, UQ, CSIRO, NSW DPI, and sponsors: Yarra, Fertilizer Australia, Koch Fertilizer, SST Software and Incitec Pivot. The tour is also supported by funding from the Australian Government.
Agenda:
- Research overview - Allan Williams/Jane Trindall, CRDC
- Sustainable cotton production: higher yields, more often - Dr Oliver Knox, UNE
- Nutrient budgeting - Dr Chris Dowling, Back Paddock
- Improving nitrogen use efficiency - Dr Dio Antille,USQ
- Mineralised nitrogen in crop - Dr Francois Visser, UQ
- Nitrogen losses from irrigated cotton - Dr Ben Macdonald, CSIRO
- Phosphorus considerations: irrigated and raingrown cotton - Dr Brendan Griffiths, UNE
- Optimising nitrogen and irrigation application and nitrous oxide emissions - Jon Baird/Dr Graeme Schwenke, NSW DPI
- Soil health and crop rotations - Dr Vadakutta Gupta, CSIRO
- Research in practice - Nigel Corish, cotton grower and Nuffield Scholar
- Research, trials and local issues - Local CottonInfo regional development officers.
