There are many critical issues facing the cotton industry, ranging from drought and water supply; yield and profitability; fibre quality and export price; nutrition; sustainability-catchment management, and BMP implementation. To assist these issues this project sought to investigate linkages between research, future decision support, and BMP. Sandra Deutscher, a specialist in providing linkages between research and extension worked with key industry working groups scoping opportunities and identify future investment that will facilitate possible linkages. Additionally CSIRO's cotton Decision Support group based in Narrabri was discontinued because of an increased industry focus on BMP and lack of funding as a result of the drought. The DSS group ceased on 30 June 2007. This new project provided funding for one software developer to maintain the CSIRO/Cotton CRC web decision support tools while a new strategy for decision support is developed that may compliment BMP implementation and uptake. This project also provided important technical supervision needed to continue the CRC/Telstra project &#39New generation scouting tools&#39./