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CRDC has published its first performance report - a companion document to the CRDC Annual Report for 2018-19.

A national multi-agricultural industry surveillance initiative, iMapPESTS, is developing novel airborne surveillance and diagnostics technologies to speed up detection and reporting of important pests and diseases in cotton growing regions and beyond.

Registrations are now open for the Climate Research Strategy for Primary Industries (CRSPI)'s conference - Climate and Carbon in Agriculture 2020 - supported by CRDC.

Cotton grower Richard Quigley of Trangie has received a 2020 Nuffield Scholarship, with support from the Cotton Research and Development Corporation and Cotton Australia. A profile on Richard appeared in the Queensland Country Life.

The Australian cotton industry is looking to the future through explicit research focusing on what impact climate change and extreme weather events will have on cotton production, and seeking to understand how we can adapt to environmental changes.

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.