This travel funding sponsored attendance at the intital planning meeting for the Rural R&D for Profit project “Improving Plant Pest Management through Cross Industry Deployment of Smart Sensor, Diagnostics and For

Until 2015, cotton growers in the Dawson Valley had no access to localised, accurate weather forecasting tools and had to rely on information relayed from weather stations located in Biloela which is 116 km away.

Prior to teh commencement of the 2016/17 cotton season, it was predicted that early season pest numbers would be extreme and widespread due to good winter and spring rainfall in all areas.