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The Australian cotton industry’s 2022 Sustainability Update released today reveals the complexity of sustainability in farming systems, and the extent of the industry’s investment in collaborative initiatives to accelerate positive impacts.

Once every five years, CRDC creates a new Strategic Plan. Our new plan, Clever Cotton, starts now.

The finalists in the CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever of the Year Award have been announced: fashion designer Emma Bond, agronomist Jacob Thuijs and agronomist Kate Lumber.

Applications for the CRDC-supported Australian Rural Leadership Program (ARLP) are now open, closing 2 July 2023.

After nine years as Program Manager for the Australian cotton industry’s joint extension program – CottonInfo – Warwick Waters will finish in the role at the end of the month.

Cotton's water use efficiency doubles, a new tool to calculate on-farm carbon emissions, and setting native vegetation targets with growers. All this and more in our latest Spotlight magazine.

CRDC has been awarded a grant to enhance cotton's industry-scale data collection and reporting.

Growers are invited to an 'unconference' hosted by the CRDC-supported SHIFT: Delivering best practice for management of future skills project team.

Ag production in Northern Australia will be bolstered with research beginning on the collaborative Cotton Grain Cattle program, just announced in Darwin today.