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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.

"Conventional wisdom says that a higher yielding crop needs more of the major nutrients than one that's less productive. But what if that's not the case? Researchers are attempting to answer that very question with a three-year project to assess just how much nitrogen and phosphorus is needed by modern cotton cultivars."

Applications are open for two roles within CRDC - one leading the cotton industry's extension program; the other demonstrating the impact of cotton innovation through data.

CRDC has successfully facilitated the commercialisation of ground-breaking research by the University of Southern Queensland’s (UniSQ) Centre for Agricultural Engineering, empowering cotton growers to optimise irrigation scheduling from the crucial first irrigation.