3 IREC Farmers' Newsletter No. 199 — Autumn 2018 3 IREC Farmer’s Newsletter ­ – Spring 2016 3 IREC Farmers' Newsletter No. 199 — Autumn 2018 In this edition Chairman’s foreword.......................................................................Page 5 Increasing returns on megalitres and investment......................Page 6 One paddock, two and a half years, five crops...........................Page 10 Think long term to capture the upside of cotton returns.........Page 14 Shared data will benefit southern cotton growers...................Page 18 Tackling nutrients, pests, weeds and cold in cotton.................Page 24 Ideas and exchanges with irrigators in the north......................Page 28 Lifting returns with better, more specific agronomy................Page 31 Russian wheat aphid detected in Riverina rice..........................Page 34 IREC Executive Committee and Advertisers Index....................Page 36