The spring edition of CRDC's magazine, Spotlight, highlights the improved performance of the cotton industry on many levels.

Key Points fro report of direct energy consumption

Energy is one of the fastest growing on-farm costs (electricity costs alone have increased by around 350 percent since 2000).

This benchmarking report presents direct energy data (diesel and electricity use) collected on irrigated Australian cotton farms.

A comprehensive testing program of conventional large mixed flow pumps typically used on cotton irrigation farms has found that these pumps, if correctly tuned, can operate at high efficiency levels with reduced energ