Spotlight magazine - Spring 2025

Progress and partnership in cotton: Spotlight magazine out now!

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The Spring 2025 edition of Spotlight is out now!

In this edition:

💻 Get ‘data platform ready’ as CRDC and KPMG Australia begin the build of the $7 million Australian Cotton Industry Data Platform, a game-changer for data, traceability and future markets.

🌾 Discover the new Future Cotton project, a four-year collaboration between CRDC and Qld DPI driving productivity, sustainability and biosecurity through regionally focused RD&E.

🧬 See the latest from the Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (ACDC), with new advances in diagnostics and AI helping tackle key diseases.

🏆 Meet the 2025 Australian Cotton Industry Award winners, including Grace Griffiths – CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever Award.

Also in this edition: welcome CRDC’s two new Innovation Brokers, and explore stories on carbon and nitrogen management, bankless irrigation, biodiversity, and CRDC Grassroots Grants in action.