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As season 24/25 gets underway, now is the time to make sure every new hire in your farming business is given the best support to succeed and thrive in the cotton industry.
Hear from Dr Nicole McDonald on the new induction guide focused on non-technical skills, backed by industry research and on-farm experiences.
You can access The Australian Cotton Enterprise Non-Technical Guide for New Entrants via the CottonInfo website.
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CRDC Senior Innovation Broker Susan Maas drops by the 'Crop to Top' podcast studio to talk about how things are changing when it comes to the challenges of biosecurity and how research can & is helping the cotton industry to understand, & prepare for, the potential risks.
Susan also talks about which of the high priority pests identified in the review of the cotton industry's Biosecurity Plan keep her up at night.
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In this special pod recording live from the 2024 Australian Cotton Conference hear from CottonInfo’s Technical Lead for Energy & Climate Jon Welsh about his recent analysis of costings & economics associated with irrigation conversion projects at two very different cotton farming operations in NSW, as well as the farm managers who oversaw the changes - Ben Kirkby and Darren Eather.
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In this episode of the Crop to Top 'Biosecurity Excellence Series' we find out more about the National Biosecurity Hub - a centralised platform for biosecurity training to support biosecurity preparedness, response and recovery.
Kirsten Phillips from Biosecurity Queensland was instrumental in the development of the Hub and joins us to explain exactly how it came about and how members of the Australian Cotton industry can make the most of the platform.
Find out more here National Biosecurity Training Hub (biotraininghub.com.au)
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In the last podcast in the Biosecurity Excellence Series, we were joined by Doug McCollum from Cotton Australia and Stuart Kearns from Plant Health Australia to talk about the soon to be released revised cotton industry biosecurity plan and discussed how high priority pests are reviewed and allocated.
In this episode, we’re going one step further and doing a deep dive into one of the high priority pests identified – boll weevil.
Someone who has seen boll weevil in full flight and experienced firsthand what its impact on production on various levels looks like is CottonInfo IPM Technical Lead Paul Grundy who spent some time last year in Brazil where the pest is a huge problem – to put it lightly.
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There’s a new industry biosecurity plan for the cotton industry due for release shortly - but what exactly IS a biosecurity plan, and how is the pest status of particular pests actually determined?
Find out the answers to these questions and more with two of Australia’s most knowledgeable professionals when it comes to cotton biosecurity - Cotton Australia's Doug McCollum and Plant Health Australia's Stuart Kearns.
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There’s just 6 weeks to go until the 2024 Australian Cotton Conference on Queensland’s Gold Coast!
Tune in to hear more from CottonInfo’s Technical Lead for Biosecurity, Sharna Holman, about why the CottonInfo team is planning to help ‘Set the Gold Standard’ in biosecurity awareness at Conference this year.
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Pre-emergent (residual) herbicides are becoming increasingly important in weed control strategies but there's much to consider when planning a residual herbicide program, as they do require more planning when considering crop rotations.
In this podcast we hear from QDAF's Jeff Werth on the benefits of adopting a residual herbicide program when it comes to improved overall weed control and herbicide resistance management.
Jeff's recently co-authored a CottonInfo fact sheet about utilising pre-emergent herbicides in Central Queensland grains and cotton cropping systems and has another coming out shortly focused on southern New South Wales.
All resources discussed in the podcast can be found on the CottonInfo Fact Sheet co-authored by Jeff Werth. Download your own copy here: Utilising pre-emergent herbicides in Central Queensland grains and cotton cropping systems | CottonInfo
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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
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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.
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