A number of research trials have been planned for the 2016/17 season which require an effective and accurate measurement of yield soon after harvest. Over the past few seasons trial coordinators have either relied on hand picking sections of treatments to estimate yields (which is time consuming), or designed trials so six modules could be weighed out over the weighbridge at at the gin.

CSD have a bale weighing trailer which is available for a limited time after their trial work is complete, and the wet weather following the 2015/16 harvest made it challenging to gain access to the trailer for local trial work in a small window of opportunity. The CGA trailer will have the same specifications as the CSD weigh trailer.

With the growth of the cotton industry in the Southern Valleys and with consideration of the climatic differences from the northern cotton growing region to the south, there is a requirement and need for research to be carried out within the local area, so the bale weighing trailer will prove to be a convenient and accessible resource to accurately weigh cotton round modules from research trials.

This project enables effective and timely research results for the Southern NSW cotton community

each season. It will also encourage on farm trials with more rigour due to replication of treatments

and effective measurement.