News + Events

CRDC's Annual Report for 2022-23 is out today, demonstrating some major developments in Australian cotton RD&E, like the five-year CRDC, GRDC and Goanna Ag collaboration WAND, a ground-breaking project that has the potential to solve the spray drift challenge. It is estimated to have a benefit-cost ratio of $12.54 to $1 – $12.54 in benefit returned to growers for every one dollar invested via CRDC.

The new CRDC Board has wasted no time in building on CRDC’s vision to grow Australia’s cotton industry by $1 billion over the next five years. Less than one week after being announced by the Agriculture Minister, Senator the Hon. Murray Watt, the new CRDC board convened in Narrabri on Monday and Tuesday.

The partnership between iconic Australian brands Country Road and Landcare Australia and the cotton industry's CRDC and Cotton Australia to improve biodiversity on cotton farms in the Namoi Valley of NSW has today reached its third anniversary.

Applications are now open for the cotton industry’s premier entry-level leadership opportunity, the 2024 Australian Future Cotton Leaders Program, with 15 spaces available for the best and brightest young minds, dedicated to developing their leadership knowledge, skills and experience.

Two cottongrowers have today graduated from the Australian Rural Leadership Program (ARLP) in Canberra: Aaron Kiely (Emerald Qld) and Jack Brennan (Gin Gin NSW).

The Spring 2023 edition of CRDC's Spotlight magazine takes a deep dive into the cotton industry's 2022 Sustainability Update, the new 2023-28 Strategic RD&E Plan Clever Cotton and CRDC's $10 million Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (ACDC).

Consultation is underway with growers around a model for native vegetation management on cotton farms. It’s a part of the process to create targets for the Australian cotton industry’s Sustainability Framework PLANET. PEOPLE. PADDOCK.

Supported by major sponsors CRDC & CSD, the Association of Australian Cotton Scientists held its fifth biennial Australian Cotton Research Conference this week in Toowoomba.

Final call for partners interested in being part of CRDC's new Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (ACDC): our $10 million investment into solving cotton diseases. Expressions of interest for potential partners close at 5pm today.