World Soil Day

Today is World Soil Day

It all starts with the soil.

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CRDC-supported scholars Niamh Mason, Georgie Oldham & Ayla Christophers with CRDC Innovation Broker Rachel Holloway.

Broaden your Horizons: AgriFutures scholarships now open!

Applications for the CRDC-supported 2024 AgriFutures Australia Horizon Scholarship program are now open!

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Janelle Montgomery

Cotton industry leader to lead CottonInfo into 2024 & beyond

After an extensive recruitment process, Dr Janelle Montgomery has been named as the new Program Lead for the Australian cotton industry’s extension program, CottonInfo.

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Partner with us: applications now open

Applications open for CRDC scholarships, scientific exchanges & human capacity research

We currently have five Expressions of Interest open for relevant research partners: Grassroots Grants, travel/conferences/scientific exchanges, Postgraduate Scholarships, Summer and Honours Scholarships, and human capacity research.

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Cotton grower Sam Coulton

Now reading via AgJournal: How cotton growers could solve Australia’s clothing waste problem

"Sam Coulton is a driving force behind a groundbreaking cotton circularity project funded by Cotton Research and Development Corporation aiming to divert clothing waste from landfill by shredding it and spreading it on growers’ paddocks pre-sowing."

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Emma Bond in her Australian cotton design.

Emma Bond's cotton design makes national fashions on the field final

CRDC Chris Lehmann Cotton Young Achiever Awardee for 2023, fashion designer Emma Bond, has been named as a national finalist in the Victoria Racing Club's Melbourne Cup Carnival Fashions on the Field competition, wearing her own Australian cotton design.

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Inspecting a cotton field with a Goanna Ag station in the foreground

Now reading via FarmOnline: Spray drift WAND tool requires change from cotton growers

"Talk to any cotton grower, and it won't take long for the conversation to turn to WAND: a network of 100 inversion profiling towers that could make spray drift a thing of the past. WAND is a great tool, and a credit to CRDC, GRDC and Goanna Ag who've put it in the hands of growers. But it will only be a game changer if we all get behind it," says cotton grower Bernie Bierhoff in this opinion piece for FarmOnline.

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Cover of the CRDC Annual Report 2022-23

Investment, innovation, impact: CRDC releases report of 2022-23 year

CRDC's Annual Report for 2022-23 is out today, demonstrating some major developments in Australian cotton RD&E, like the five-year CRDC, GRDC and Goanna Ag collaboration WAND, a ground-breaking project that has the potential to solve the spray drift challenge. It is estimated to have a benefit-cost ratio of $12.54 to $1 – $12.54 in benefit returned to growers for every one dollar invested via CRDC.

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CRDC's new Board met in Narrabri on Monday and Tuesday

New CRDC board meets for the first time - with $1B value creation on the agenda

The new CRDC Board has wasted no time in building on CRDC’s vision to grow Australia’s cotton industry by $1 billion over the next five years. Less than one week after being announced by the Agriculture Minister, Senator the Hon. Murray Watt, the new CRDC board convened in Narrabri on Monday and Tuesday.

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