Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 423 IREC Farmers' Newsletter No. 196 — Summer 2016 3 IREC Farmer’s Newsletter ­ – Spring 2016 3 IREC Farmers' Newsletter No. 196 — Summer 2016 In this edition Chairman’s foreword...............................................................Page 5 Know your paddock potential for profitable cotton............Page 6 Remote sensing of nitrogen status in cotton........................Page 9 Validating thrips thresholds for southern cotton............. Page 12 Lifting maize yield with new management practices...... Page 16 Overhead irrigation of soybeans in southern NSW.......... Page 20 New varieties give rice growers more flexibility.............. Page 23 Better information from improved NIR tissue test........... Page 26 Optimising nitrogen for irrigated canola............................ Page 28 Crop sequencing for irrigated double cropping................ Page 32 Strategies and products to manage market water.......... Page 36 More information at your fingertips................................... Page 38 IREC Executive Committee and Advertisers Index........... Page 40