The Spring 2014 Edition of Spotlight magazine highlights the decisions to be made at the start of a new cotton season around the use of resources. This Irrigation special issue highlight irrigation research funded by CRDC that supports improved scheduling using canopy measurements for improved water use efficiency and yield. Alternative farm scale irrigation systems trials are compared. The edition also outlines recent publications; CRDC five year report; The crop and pasture science special edition of cotton collaborative research and reports on the 2014 cotton conference