3 IREC Farmers' Newsletter No. 198 — Spring 2017 3 IREC Farmer’s Newsletter ­ – Spring 2016 3 IREC Farmers' Newsletter No. 198 — Spring 2017 In this edition Chairman’s foreword.......................................................................Page 5 A challenging cotton season...........................................................Page 6 Versatile irrigation business rewarded again............................Page 11 Black root rot threatens profitable cotton production..............Page 12 Quinoa: an emerging industry for NSW.......................................Page 16 Learning to manage lodging in rice.............................................Page 19 Collective experience of delayed permanent water.................Page 22 Progress in remote sensing of PI nitrogen uptake....................Page 24 Drone and Technology Day............................................................Page 27 Maximising irrigation profitability................................................Page 31 Crunching the numbers on double cropping..............................Page 35 IREC Executive Committee and Advertiser's Index...................Page 36