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CRDC research partner CSIRO is leading a new international research project to understand and manage fall armyworm (FAW), with support from CRDC.

While the Australian cotton industry has had a major focus on sustainability in 2020, so too has the global cotton industry - particularly ensuring that brands and retailers keen to source sustainable cotton can access credible, consistent and comparable ways to measure impact data across the various cotton sustainability standards.

The Regional Wellbeing Survey (RWS) is an annual survey that measures the subjective wellbeing of people living in rural and regional Australia. CRDC is encouraging all those in the cotton community who live rurally and regionally to take part in the survey.

CRDC has recently entered into an agreement to support SataCrop, the tool designed to mitigate the risk of spray drift by allowing operators to understand where sensitive crops are located in proximity to their spray operation.

Minimising spray drift is a high priority for Australian agriculture, with the grains and cotton industries joining to develop a hazardous weather warning system to provide real-time weather data and alerts to growers and spray operators.

The spring edition of CRDC's magazine, Spotlight, is now out. The edition has a focus on sustainability, in line with the industry's current focus on setting new sustainability targets.

CRDC has today published six Expressions of Interest for researchers and research organisations interested in conducting RD&E projects within the cotton industry.

The 2021 ABARES Science and Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture - supported by CRDC - are now open. CRDC is encouraging young researchers aged 18-35 to apply for a grant valued at up to $22,000 to fund an innovative research project that will benefit Australia's cotton industry.

The Australian Government’s Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) is providing $12 million funding for small and medium sized enterprises to solve five important environmental challenges. One of these challenges, submitted and now managed by CRDC is ‘Is it possible to revolutionise agricultural spray application?’