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Australia : CSD’s interactive webcast for cotton industry

Commercial cotton seed supplier Cotton Seed Distributors Ltd (CSD) chose a webcast to keep growers informed of the latest techniques for maximising yield and fibre quality for fields planted to CSD’s latest high-performance varieties: the Sicot 71 Family.

The World Wide Web (the internet) has had a successful debut as an interactive mechanism for transferring information between research and extension personnel and growers and consultants in the cotton industry.

More than 60 people from Hillston in southern NSW to Emerald in Central Queensland logged on at some time during the interactive Webcast with many sending in questions and comments via e-mail and fax.

CSD general manager, Adam Kay, said the Webcast technique had been chosen because of its spontaneity, its low cost to participants, and its capacity to allow growers to participate from their farms, or via their laptop or web-based mobile phone if on the road.

Adam Kay informed that they were also mindful that growers are extremely busy at this time of the year tending to their crops, and they judged that creating an interactive internet-based management forum was the most timely and efficient way of bringing them up to date with the latest research and extension developments regarding maximizing the performance of these crops.

Emerald cotton grower Hamish Millar watched the Webcast; “It was an excellent initiative and a great means of extending information to growers. The interaction of the viewers and the expert panel was first class and provided great back-up service for CSD’s product.

The Webcast featured Adam Kay;Namoi consultant Laurie Kaelin; Dr Greg Constable, Program Leader for ‘Cotton Improvement and Production’ with CSIRO; and CSD extension and Development agronomists Robert Eveleigh, James Quinn and David Kelly.

Water management and nutrition were key issues discussed in the Webcast, with Greg Constable highlighting the importance of irrigation timing, particularly the first couple of irrigations.

He stated that the objective at this time of the season is to produce as many nodes and fruit as quick as you can, and you don't want anything limiting this.

James Quinn said some of the techniques used in previous seasons to achieve this objective were to avoid waterlogging, and water-run small amounts of nitrogen in most irrigations to keep crops ticking along, resulting ultimately in high yields and sound fibre quality.

David Kelly presented a summary of research work conducted by the CSD team including 119 large-scale replicated trials across the industry over a number of seasons. He also outlined results of extensive grower surveys and detailed 'segmented picking' work designed to better analyse yield and quality components of these specific varieties.

From this data they have seen that the Sicot 71 family will often accumulate fruit a lot quicker than other varieties, and by the end of the season, produce more lint per boll, and that’s where the excellent yield potential is coming from. He statedthat to maximise this, they need to often push these crops to maximise the boll numbers and boll size, and ensure that they don't cut-out prematurely.

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