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The following data is a time series of both the Australian and World cotton industries. The information is presented visually as a series of graphs

Summarised here are some best management practises you can implement day to day on your farm to promote biodiversity and support your natural workforce. Once the hard work is done you can let nature take over and time take its course.

Aphids, once a econdary pest in cotton are now a major problem for growers in some regions. Problems associated with aphid in Australian cotton include vectoring of cotton bunchy top disease if present in the crop, yield reductions from uncontrolled early season infestations and late seasoneffects of honeydew on fibre quality .

Communities and People Series 2009: Social and economic analysis of the darling downs communities

Irrigating cotton requires balancing excessive vegetative growth due to abundant water supply against limited yield potential due to water restriction. In addition, there is the need to minimise the risk of waterlogging from rainfall after an irrigation application, and maximise the opportunity to userainfall productively.

Rivers provide essential ecosystem services by carrying water, nutrients and even seeds to regenerate our landscapes. Leave riparian land uncultivated to trap sediments and nutrients and keep the rivers clean.

Energy is one of the fastest growing on-farm costs (electricity costs alone have increased by around 350 percent since 2000). To help growers cut costs and improve their on-farm energy efficiency, CRDC, NCEA and CottonInfo have been delivering the Improving energy efficiency on irrigated cotton farms project over the past two years, including delivering on-farm energy-audits to growers. This benchmarking report of direct energy consumption (diesel and electricity use) on our cotton farms, based on the findings of 198 whole-farm energy assessments.

This survey of cotton growing practices on the 2010-11 season was undertaken for the Cotton Catchment Communities Cooperative Research Centre (Cotton CRC) and Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC). It sought to establish the adoption of key farming practices by cotton growers to inform review of the impact and adoption of past research and future planning of research directions

The Australian Cotton Comparative Analysis provides the industry benchmark for the economics of cotton growing in Australia. The report focuses on the economics of the 2013 crop from growers across the different cotton-growing valleys. It also presents trends that have been measured against more than 10 years of data. The Cotton Comparative Analysis is a joint initiative of CRDC and Boyce Chartered Accountants.