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The Summer 2023-24 edition of CRDC's Spotlight takes a deep dive into circularity, which is one of CRDC’s new investment areas under Clever Cotton. It looks at the end-of-life management of cotton garments and fabrics and how returning them to the soil in cotton fields may be a solution to Australia’s textile waste problem.

Where do our clothes go that are damaged, stained or no longer wearable? The answer might surprise you, writes Joe Attanasio of Yahoo News.

More than 2,400 grain and cotton growers and spray contractors across QLD and NSW have signed on to a world-first, Australian-developed weather data system to help minimise spray drift and limit the damage it causes to food and fibre crops and the environment.

It all starts with the soil.

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

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.

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.

"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."

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.