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Satacrop is a new platform offering improved mapping technology to better protect cotton and other crops from spray drift. After a successful trial in Queensland’s Central Highlands around Emerald, the new mapping tool is available for the 2019-2020 summer season.

Cotton industry researcher Dr Nicole McDonald has received the 2019 Excellence in Career Development Research award from Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA). CDAA is Australia’s largest cross-sectoral community of career development practitioners.

Trangie farmer Richie Quigley will look at how growers can improve infiltration rates and stored soil moisture through maintaining crop residues as cover, under his cotton-supported 2020 Nuffield Scholarship which was announced last week.

Australia’s agricultural industries have the opportunity to harness the benefits of big data and digital technology, and it’s a case of working together at all levels, according to the Australian Farm Institute’s Executive Director Mick Keogh.

The cotton industry was very well represented at the Australian Rural Women’s Awards in Canberra this week.

Cotton research has been conducted in Northern Australia since the mid-90s, initially in the Ord River Irrigation Area region of WA. With cotton in northern Australia continuing to expand, further research is underway, supporting CRDC’s goal to ensure new farming systems are sustainable and productive.

CRDC has today announced the appointment of two new Research and Development (R&D) Managers, who will be joining the CRDC team part time from October: agronomist Elle Storrier and cotton researcher Dr Meredith Conaty.

The spring edition of CRDC's magazine, Spotlight, is out today, taking an indepth look at crop nutrition and disease in preparation for the 2019-20 cotton season.

The Minister for Agriculture, Senator the Hon. Bridget McKenzie, has today announced the reappointment of CRDC Chair, Richard Haire, for a further three years.