Introducing the Zappa Trap
14 Dec 2018
Improve your pest management today THE ZAPPA TRAP A light trapping system to aid pest monitoring and management. What does it do? Developed by Dr Robert Mensah - Senior Principal Research Scientist, Biopesticides & IPM, NSW DPI; and Alison Young - Te...
Read MoreA Good Drop to Lift Spirits
22 Oct 2018
Some much needed rain has fallen over the past week with up to 80mm in places over the last 10 days. This is a very welcoming and uplifting sight and has allowed growers to think seriously about their crop rotations and the potential to plant a summer crop. Although patchy there were some very ...
Read MoreCGS Summer Crop Seminars
17 Sep 2018
CGS Summer Crop Seminars CGS will be holding a series of Summer Crop Option seminars across the Namoi Valley to ensure growers have all the crop information required for the coming season. We are putting a proactive spin on the dry period and getting ready for when the drought breaks...
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Ag Data Management: Success Starts with a Common Platform
22 Dec 2017
Ag data management: Success starts with a common platform As the outside temperature regularly reads over 40 degrees Celsius, Australian cotton growers have again reached one of the busiest times of the season: irrigation time! With some fields that are irrigated by overhead equipment as a...
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New Technologies vs. Agronomic Knowledge in Precision Agriculture
05 Oct 2017
New Technologies vs. Agronomic Knowledge in Precision Agriculture As the days are getting longer and the temperature is starting to rise, Australian broadacre growers are gearing up for another summer crop season. The Australian winter has been extremely dry in most areas, with a lot of growers r...
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Yield data: more than a pretty picture
14 Jul 2017
Yield data: more than a pretty picture It is mid July, which, for the Australian cotton industry, means that picking is still going on for some growers. A different group of growers however is getting ready to start planting cotton again in three weeks time; the introduction of Bollgard III has...
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Precision Ag in a Tough Season
09 May 2017
Precision Ag in a Tough Season This year's summer crop season has been a tough one for most growers in Australia. Prolonged periods of high temperatures and a distinct lack of in-crop rain in most areas have caused the sky- high expectations at the beginning of the season to come down as the ...
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Mapping your Profit
22 Feb 2017
Mapping Your Profit Picking in Central Queensland has started in January this year; the introduction of Bollgard III in Australia has definitely altered the cotton season as we know it. What has not changed however is that we are all eagerly anticipating some good results on our yield monito...
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Infield data collection
25 Jan 2017
Infield Data Collection As the Australian cotton season progresses to the point where some cotton in Central Queensland is already in the gin yard ready to be processed, most fields are anywhere between 15 nodes and full row closure - depending on which valley you are in. During the season, all k...
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Variable Rate Technology in Cotton
12 Dec 2016
Variable Rate Technology in Cotton As the cotton season progresses in Australia, growers are starting to apply nutrients, growth regulators and other inputs to their crops. Where growers traditionally tended to apply one blanket rate of product over the whole field, or sometimes ...
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The essentials after planting
11 Nov 2016
The Essentials After Planting Now that most cotton in Australia has been planted and is powering along with plenty of moisture available, growers have some time to plan the rest of the season. While it might seem obvious what has to be done to grow the actual cotton; providing fertiliser, keeping...
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The science behind planting
28 Oct 2016
The Science Behind Planting Cotton planting in Australia is well underway in most valleys whilst some early planted cotton in Central Queensland is already well advanced. The question that often gets asked around planting time is: "how precise is precise enough when it comes to plantin...
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The demand for data
14 Oct 2016
The Demand for Data As is seen in many other sectors like manufacturing, mining and logistics, data is a key driver of efficiency and productivity gains in agriculture. Records such as yields, rain fall, plant data, fertiliser inputs etc. have been kept by many growers for a long period of time a...
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