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Sam Lee, extension and development manager with CSD, has today been announced as a participant in Course 31 of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation's ARLP, with support from the Australian cotton industry.

Nominations are open in the following categories for 2024: Bayer Grower of the Year, AgriRisk High Achiever of the Year, CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever of the Year, Cotton Seed Distributors Researcher of the Year and IPF Service to Industry Award.

Eight Australia’s RDCs, including CRDC, are working with Agricultural Innovation Australia to develop a carbon footprint solution. The Environmental Accounting Platform (EAP) is an easy-to-access tool to help growers better understanding their on-farm baseline carbon emissions and residual footprint and make better-informed decisions.

The CRDC-supported ABARES Science and Innovation Award winner for 2023, research scientist Dr Cong Vu and his company NanoSoils Bio, will feature as part of evokeAG in Perth this week.

The innovative cotton circularity project - supported by CRDC, Cotton Australia, Goondiwindi Cotton, Sheridan, Coreo and Thread Together - to return shredded natural fibres to cotton farms featured on Network Ten News this week.

60 per cent of cotton growers have made a change in their spray application as a result of the CRDC, GRDC and GoannaAg spray hazard identification system, WAND. Now, WAND's game-changing new 24-hour forecasting feature is live.

The participants in the 2024 Australia Future Cotton Leaders Program (AFCLP) have been announced following a record number of applicants.

From our CRDC family to yours.

The Summer 2023-24 edition of CRDC's Spotlight takes a deep dive into circularity, which is one of CRDC’s new investment areas under Clever Cotton. It looks at the end-of-life management of cotton garments and fabrics and how returning them to the soil in cotton fields may be a solution to Australia’s textile waste problem.