• Travel Sponsorship: 2014 Beltwide Cotton Conference in New Orleans, LA, USA 

  Linda, Smith; Linda, Scheikowski (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland, 2015-06-30)

  The reason for travel is to attend the 2014 Beltwide Cotton Conference to be held from the 6 – 8 January at the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans, LA, USA. Coordinated by the National Cotton Council (NCC) and its cooperating ...
• Accelerating Precision Agriculture to Decision Agriculture – Analysis of the Economic Benefit and Strategies for Delivery of Digital Agriculture in Australia 

  Perrett, Edward; Heath, Richard; Keogh, Michael; Laurie, A; Darragh, L (Australian Farm Institute, 2017-12-31)

  The potential economic gains for the Australian farm sector and associated supply chains arising from the adoption of decision agriculture will be estimated and recommendations made for business models and strategies to ...
• Plant Biosecurity RD&E Strategy 2015/16 

  Fraser, Greg (2016-06-30)

  An efficient plant biosecurity system is vital for protecting Australia’s $31.8 billion plant production industries and our unique environment from exotic plant pest threats. Research, development and extension (R,D&E) are ...
• Producer Survey to Identify Accelerating Precision Agriculture to Decision Agriculture (P2D) Needs and Issues. 

  Jakku, Emma; Zhang, Airong; Llewellyn, Rick (CSIRO, 2017-12-30)

  This project has conducted a nation-wide survey to better understand Australian producers’ needs and issues in relation to agricultural data. The survey included multiple industries and regions, to increase the researchers ...
• Capital Item Purchase: Planter Bar 

  Gourley, Ian (Dryland Cotton Research Association, 2017-06-30)

  Achieving reliable, even crop establishment has been identified through the Dryland Cotton Research Association (DCRA) project meetings as one of the major concerns dryland cotton growers face. This issue has gained ...
• Strengthening CGA Policy and Procedures 

  McCullagh, Emma; Elsden, Sam (Central Highlands Cotton Growers and Irrigators Association, 2016-06-30)

  Australian cotton production has fluctuated dramatically over the last five years. The industry’s capacity to respond to these rapid and extreme fluctuations is largely attributable to the strength of its people, their ...
• Binnia Valley Growers Group – In-field Trials to Address Local Barriers to Cotton Growing and Exposure to the Cotton Industry 

  Welsh, Jon (Cotton Info Team, 2016-06-30)

  The Binnia Valley is located on the western end of the Liverpool Range approximately 70km south of Mullaley and 20km north of Coolah. In terms of availability of agronomic and technical resources the area is considered ...
• Australian Cotton: Accounting for Value Chain Sustainability and Competitive Advantage 

  Brown, David; Sutton, Bruce; Brown, David; Darlington, Bronwyn (University of Technology, 2014-06-30)

  The Australian cotton industry has invested heavily in developing strategies to bolster its competitive position, particularly in terms of quality and best practice in on-farm management as reflected in myBMP. One of the ...
• Updating and Expanding WEEDpak in Support of the Cotton Industry and myBMP 

  Graham, Charles (NSW Department of Primary Industries, 2015-06-30)

  This project built on many years of weeds work supported by CRDC and value added to earlier research, while providing strategic information to growers in support of MyBMP, based around updating WEEDpak. WEEDpak, the guide ...
• Summer Scholarship 2014/15 

  Holman, Sharna (University of Sydney, 2015-06-30)

  CRDC 2015/16 Summer Scholarships (S/S ) Purpose- Strategic Plan Targets 1.Farmers 2. Industry 3.Customers 4. People 5.Performance ...
• Scholarship to UNE Cotton Production Course 

  Byrne, Rebecca; Goodhew, Nicholas; Thomas, Christopher; Milner, Matthew; Devlin, Alice; Mulligan, Lyndon (University of New England, 2013-06-30)

  The Cotton Production Course began in 1994 and originally consisted of three units; Applied Cotton Production, Cotton Protection and Cotton and the Environment. At that time the Australian cotton industry was expanding ...
• Scientific Exchange: Invitation to Present at the International FUSCOM Workshop 

  Smith, Linda; Davis, Mike; Woodward, Jason; Kirkpatrick, Terry; Rothrock, Craig (QLD Dept. Natural Resources and Mines, 30-06-20)

  FUSCOM has always been an excellent means to encourage collaboration between research groups within Australia and communicate research activities to various groups. But one of the greatest assets of this meeting is the ...
• Cotton Map 2014/15 

  Cottee, Nicola (Cotton Australia, 2015-06-30)

  CottonMap is currently an ongoing annual investment. The Cotton Field Awareness Map pinpoints the location of cotton fields, to assist in minimising off-target damage from downwind pesticide application, particularly ...
• Southern Valleys Cotton Nutrition Workshops 

  O'Callaghan, Kate; Cowlick, Tom (Southern Valley CGA, 2015-06-30)

  The Southern Valleys CGA had seen other valleys participate in Back Paddock nutrition workshops and identified this as a need in our region. We sought ways to better engage our cotton growers as many of them are new to ...
• Reducing and Capturing Emissions in Transport and Energy Generating 

  MacDonald, Ben (CSIRO Land & Water, 2016-06-30)

  The potential contribution of surface and ground water to overall nitrous oxide emissions from irrigated production systems has not yet been quantified. In this study we have used the International Panel on Climate Change ...
• An Impact Assessment of CRDC Water Use Efficiency Investments 2011-2015 

  Chudleigh, Peter (Agtrans Research, 2016-06-30)

  This report presents the results of an impact assessment of a cluster of six WUE projects funded by the CRDC over the years 2010-2015. In addition to CRDC funding (a combination of statutory levies paid by industry ...
• Cotton Industry Young Professionals Program 

  Lembo, Kay (University of Tasmania, 2014-06-30)

  partnering with the Primary Industry Centre for Science Education (PICSE) has been a key strategy for the cotton industry to ensure it has access to, and availability of skilled professionals into the future. PISCE is an ...
• Developing Soil Testing and Fertiliser Response Guidelines to Manage P, K and S Fertility for Irrigated and Dryland Cotton Cropping Systems 

  Bell, Mike (University of Queensland, 2015-06-30)

  Current nutrient management strategies are based primarily on the concept of cost effective nutrient management (i.e. deriving an economic return from fertilizer investment), unless managers have consciously embarked on a ...
• International Congress of Entomology 2016, Orlando 

  Wilson, Lewis; Heimona, Simone (CSIRO Agriculture and Food, 2016-10-30)

  This travel sponsorship enable two researchers to attend and present research outcomes from Australia relevant to other parts of the world at the International Congress of Entomology in Orlando and to inform ourselves of ...
• Verticillium Wilt Assessment using Drones 

  Leray, Jerome (Western Aerial Mapping, 2017-06-30)

  The primary aim of this project is to determine whether inexpensive Drones (UAVs) can be used to detect and define early stage VW in cotton. This scope of the project also specifies that equipment used must be easy to ...

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