Progress and partnership in cotton: Spotlight magazine out now!

Published

September 19, 2025

The Spring 2025 edition of Spotlight is out now!

In this edition:

💻 Get ‘data platform ready’ as CRDC and KPMG Australia begin the build of the $7 million Australian Cotton Industry Data Platform, a game-changer for data, traceability and future markets.

🌾 Discover the new Future Cotton project, a four-year collaboration between CRDC and Qld DPI driving productivity, sustainability and biosecurity through regionally focused RD&E.

🧬 See the latest from the Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (ACDC), with new advances in diagnostics and AI helping tackle key diseases.

🏆 Meet the 2025 Australian Cotton Industry Award winners, including Grace Griffiths – CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever Award.

Also in this edition: welcome CRDC’s two new Innovation Brokers, and explore stories on carbon and nitrogen management, bankless irrigation, biodiversity, and CRDC Grassroots Grants in action.

Publications

Spotlight magazine - Autumn 2026

Date: March 20, 2026

The Autumn 2026 edition of Spotlight edition highlights the next phase of on‑farm action through Cotton Low Emissions Intensity Farming Systems (Cotton LEIFS), with grower‑led trials now underway across Qld and NSW. From enhanced efficiency fertilisers and smarter nitrogen use to cover crops like sunn hemp, these projects are testing real-world solutions to cut emissions while maintaining productivity.

News + Events

Funding boost to drive breakthroughs in cotton industry

Date: March 16, 2026

CRDC will invest more than half a million dollars across 11 feasibility studies for cutting-edge projects that aim to tackle some of cotton’s biggest future challenges.