This project funded the purchase of four row cotton precision planter for the establishment of cotton experiments in southern NSW.

As the cotton industry rapidly expands into southern NSW, the purchase of a four row cotton precision planter significantly enhanced the ability of NSW DPI Plant Systems Branch and other research organisations to deliver accurate results from existing cotton research projects in the southern connected systems. This capital investment project significantly reduces the risk of poor establishment of cotton trials by providing control over plant density, plant spacing and seed placement relative to the soil surface. The four row planter will also mean easier movement of the equipment between the research stations Yanco Agricultural Institute and Leeton Field Station.

CRDC and NSW DPI have co-invested in the purchase of this four row precision planter which will run on the bed surface, eliminating variable plant establishment issues in seed spacing and placement that have occurred through the use of other equipment.