A rapidly expanding poultry production industry with associated poultry litter (PL) is located in close proximity to high yielding irrigated cotton in the Murrumbidgee Valley of south eastern Australia.

Existing wireless technology and the emergence of low-cost IoT sensors in agriculture offer the possibility to gather relevant data from the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in real time for irrigation scheduling and t

Cotton fibre is the most important natural textile fibre, but it requires intensive scouring to disrupt the hydrophobic cuticle to allow dye to penetrate.

In this project, a novel treatment was investigated to improve whiteness, brightness, softness and dye uptake of cotton yarn and fabric.

Cotton is now a significant crop in the irrigated Riverina region of southern NSW, Australia, increasing in area from approximately 39,000 ha in 2013 to 90,050 ha in 2018 and contributing from between 10-30% of Austra