News + Events

On behalf of CRDC, our congratulations to the Hon. Julie Collins MP on her appointment as the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

The Winter 2024 edition of Spotlight takes a look at the just-released Fourth Environmental Assessment, commissioned by CRDC and Cotton Australia as part of our industry’s PLANET. PEOPLE. PADDOCK. Sustainability Framework, and some of its recommendations.

Applications are open for an Innovation Broker to join the CRDC team.

The CRDC team are saddened to hear of the passing of former CRDC board director, Liz Alexander of Emerald Qld. Liz was a committed and passionate member of the cotton industry, having served on the boards of both Cotton Australia and CRDC.

Are you a grower and wondered who decides the industry’s research, development and extension (RD&E) priorities? The good news is, it’s you! But how, you ask?

In a joint initiative led by the Rural Safety & Health Alliance (RSHA) - supported by CRDC - the Farming and Fatigue: Growing Sensible Solutions project aims to guide the ag industry to understand, measure and manage fatigue on-farm.

Most if not all of Australia's cotton growers are also grain growers - so we work very closely with our sister research and development (R&D) corporation, the Grains Research and Development Corporation, to deliver impactful R&D for our shared levy payers.

Three rising stars have just been announced as finalists in the CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever Award by Cotton Australia: CRDC's Elsie Hudson, CottonInfo and QDAF's Sharna Holman, and HMAg's Alex Trinder.

Three CRDC-supported researchers have been named as finalists in the 2024 CSD Cotton Researcher of the Year Award by Cotton Australia: Dr Lisa Bird of NSW DPI, Dr Nicole McDonald of Central Qld University and Dr Alice Payne of RMIT.