Alternative and renewable energy sources, including solar for powering cotton production, were hot topics at this week’s (24 and 25 February) CottonInfo Big Days Out at St George, QLD and Gunnedah, NSW.

CRDC hosted a Futures Forum (Dec 2013) where key industry participants considered the future of the Australian cotton industry and the type of R&D investments that will make the industry profitable, sustainable an

The purpose of the travel was to attend and present results of research into plant based measures of irrigation scheduling at the ASA/CSSA/SSSA International Annual Conference in Long Beach, California.

This report describes laboratory work carried out to evaluate and further optimise the chemical and physical formulation of the proposed new ultra-thin film product.

For this analysis the 1 D hydrodynamic model DYRESM was used to simulate 10 idealised dams ranging in geographic (and climatic) location and morphometry DYRESM was used to simulate the water balance and thermal struct