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Irricom 2024 - CottonInfo’s third irrigation forum - will take a deep dive into understanding the Water Use Efficiency of siphon-less and bankless designs.
Tune in to hear more from CottonInfo’s Technical Lead for Irrigation Lou Gall on the value of attending this event on Feb 27th in Narrabri.

More details & RSVP here: Irricom 2024, Narrabri | CottonInfo

 Welcome to Season 3 of Crop to Top and the first podcast episode for 2024.

This episode was recorded on site in Emerald, Central Queensland and features a conversation between our CottonInfo Tech Lead for IPM Paul Grundy and QDAF Principal Research Scientist, Richard Sequeira.

When Richard arrived in Central Queensland in 1996, the local cotton industry was in the grip of a Helicoverpa problem, then, five years later, Silverleaf whitefly exploded.

In this episode, hear about Richard's experiences and involvement in bringing industry out the other side, and the learnings that underpin good decision making in 2024.

Last year the Australian Cotton Disease Review was completed by the Centre for Crop Disease Management at Curtin University in WA and out of that … the Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration (ACDC) was been given the green light from the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) board. 
CRDC’s Innovation Broker leading the project is Elsie Hudson and she joined the CottonInfo podcast to explain just what ACDC is and how the process to building it is shaping up.

This podcast features a (virtual) round table discussion between CottonInfo’s IPM Tech Lead Paul Grundy and three CottonInfo REOs (Kieran O’Keeffe, Amanda Thomas & Janelle Montgomery) talking with Megan Woodward about the surprising trial results that formed the basis of the new guidelines - and how to best apply them.

Other resources:
Watch a new CottonInfo video on the research behind the guidelines - showing just how resilient cotton can be here.Access the guidelines via p9-10 of the 2023-24 Cotton Pest Management Guide here.

The Weather And Networked Data (WAND) network of towers is a joint project between CRDC, GRDC and GoannaAg that launched late 2022.

The network allows growers to see the latest weather readings from their local tower, and predicts whether a hazardous inversion is current or likely to occur in the next 2 hours.

CottonInfo's Megan Woodward caught up with Hamish Clark, an early adopter of the WAND system, on his property near Boggabilla to get his take on being involved with the network and associated app, and found out some of the benefits he's experienced so far.

This podcast chat also forms part of a CottonInfo video, watch here: Using the WAND network as a cotton grower - YouTube.

Successfully planting cotton takes careful planning and good preparation.

In this CottonInfo Podcast EXTRA, Cotton Seed Distributor's Chris Barry has a chat with grower John Cameron - a winner of the CSD Fast Start Award - about his approach to planting and some tips on achieving high establishment rates.

This podcast recording has been developed alongside a CottonInfo YouTube video which can be viewed here: Cotton conversations: Planting - YouTube