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The Spring 2025 Spotlight features the data platform build, Future Cotton launch, cutting-edge ACDC research and Australian Cotton Industry Award winners.

In 2024, CRDC launched the Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (ACDC), a groundbreaking $13 million RD&E program. In this article from CRDC Spotlight Spring 2025, we bring you an update on ACDC's investments, intended impact and linkages with CottonInfo.

Simon Blyth has been named a 2026 scholar of the Nuffield Australia Scholarship program, with support from CRDC, Cotton Australia, and AgriFutures Australia.

Australian cotton growers are set to reap the benefits of digital farming, thanks to a new secure, centralised data platform that will boost efficiency, strengthen traceability and deliver the transparency that today’s market demands.

ANU student Julian Craven’s CRDC-sponsored scholarship experience combines research, policy, and practical learning.

Cotton growers are finding many benefits in installing fish screens on their river pumps. Modern fish-protection screens keep fish and debris in the river and out of irrigation systems.

The 2025 Australian Cotton Industry Awards Dinner, held in Toowoomba on 6 August as part of the Cotton Collective, celebrated excellence across the cotton sector.

Congratulations to Grace Griffiths: the 2025 CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever of the Year, just announced at tonight's cotton industry awards in Toowoomba.

The leaders of Cotton Australia and CRDC will tour cotton valleys across July, August and September to seek feedback from growers and industry on a number of topics that together will shape the industry’s future.