Rotation Finder Notes

Notes and assumption on information presented in the rotation finder

Text Colours: 
   Black - Positive interaction
   Orange - Cautionary note  
   Red - Potential Disadvantage

Notes on row headings
* Planting into freshly incorporated unweathered residues can lead to allelopathic effects.
** N fixation can be restricted by water stress and nodulation.
*** A crop will take up approximately twice the amount of N as that removed at harvest.
**** Average water requirements as a % of cotton usage These figures are a guide only. Note regional differences. Storage and transmission losses may significantly increase these values. ET = Evaporation and transpiration by plant.

Rotation finder references:
+ Refer to Cotton Pest Management Guide
1 Refer to Cotton CRC Note “Sowing Cotton into Standing Wheat Stubble”
2 Rochester IJ, Peoples MB, Constable GA and Gault RR (1998). Faba beans and other legumes add nitrogen to irrigated cotton cropping systems.
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 38, 253-260.