Irrigation is a key component of cotton production in Australian agriculture, where increasing pressures of water scarcity requires growers to improve their water use efficiency.

This travel scholarship funded the attendance of one researcher to participate and present at the 2018 FUSCOM Conference.

This project aimed to improve the profit of 3,000 cotton, dairy, rice and sugar irrigators with the support of 16 research and development partners and 19 farmer irrigation technology learning sites.

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.

The annual qualitative and quantitative survey project measures the impacts and outcomes of research and production critical to the Australian cotton industry.