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NSW DPI’s Dr Lisa Bird is starting a new project on insecticide resistance to focus on pests where and when needed. Resistance surveillance will continue to provide industry with evidence-based resistance frequency data and testing will be prioritised for pests and insecticides identified as emerging issues for industry.

2020 is the official UN International Year of Plant Health. To celebrate this, CottonInfo has turned its annual cotton calendar 50 shades of green. The 2020 calendar features a range of stunning photographs from across the cotton season, and top tips for plant health covering pests, weed and disease management.

At CRDC, we have a longstanding Christmas card tradition with our team. Here's the latest: all we want for Christmas is rain, dear! From our CRDC family to yours, merry Christmas. May Santa find you, and bring you rain.

As part of this week's International Cotton Advisory Committee plenary meeting in Brisbane, CRDC, CottonInfo and CSD hosted 50 delegates from 14 countries on a tour of the Darling Downs.

This week, 360 delegates from 40 countries converged on Brisbane for the annual International Cotton Advisory Committee Plenary Meeting.

The summer edition of CRDC's magazine, Spotlight, is out today, bringing you stories about the people who are passionate about the cotton industry and how, with added support from CRDC and organisations such as Cotton Australia and Auscott, we are helping them achieve their potential.

CRDC's Annual Report for 2018-19 has today been tabled in Parliament by the Minister for Agriculture, Senator the Hon. Bridget McKenzie.

Cotton growers have today met in Sydney to discuss research proposals with CRDC's R&D team, as part of Cotton Australia's General Meeting.

University of Queensland PhD student Rhys Pirie’s glass recycling research continues to draw recognition at the highest levels. Rhys is the first Australian to win Young Innovator of the Year at the world’s premier conference for research and innovation, Falling Walls, which took place in Berlin last week.