18 PhD and postdoc students from across Australia’s east coast had a behind-the-scenes look at the cotton industry at Narrabri last week, visiting dryland and irrigated cotton farms, exploring the cotton seed, ginning, and classing processes and hearing about the range of research underway.

CottonInfo, the Australian cotton industry’s joint extension program, is under the leadership of a new program manager, Warwick Waters.

Dr Sharon Downes, a team leader with CSIRO at the Australian Cotton Research Institute at Narrabri, has been selected as a participant in Course 21 of the Australian Rural Leadership Program (ARLP), sponsored by CRDC and Auscott.