Infrastructure upgrades may be required to increase the performance and efficiency of your irrigation pump and electrical motors. These upgrades can be effectively ‘paid for’ through reductions in your electricity bills. The upgrades may include the installation of power factor correction equipment, variable speed drives or soft starters.
More Profit from Nitrogen (MPfN): enhancing the nitrogen use efficiency of intensive cropping and pasture systems is a four year partnership between Australia’s four major intensive users of nitrogenous fertilisers: cotton, dairy, sugar and horticulture - led by CRDC.
This cotton picker clean down checklist from CottonInfo is provided to growers and harvest contractors to assist in the prevention of the spread of pests, weeds and diseases.
In Dec 2016, CottonInfo and various partners hosted the Smarter Irrigation Technology Tour, bringing together irrigators from across four commodity sectors - cotton, sugar, rice and dairy - to see automated irrigation in action in northern VIC and southern NSW.
This booklet contains information about some of the amazing flora and fauna you might see while out enjoying local rivers, and how this natural workforce is providing benefits to our farms and rural communities.
This fact sheet, developed by GRDC, CRDC and CottonInfo, provides tips and tactics for cotton and grain growers in reducing herbicide damage.
This short fast facts from CottonInfo outlines what researchers currently know about verticillium wilt.
This fact sheet brings together the latest in verticillium research from the teams at NSW DPI and QDAF (supported by CRDC), plus CSIRO and CSD. Current: Sept 2016.
The Emissions Reduction Fund is the centrepiece of the Australian Government's climate change policy; designed to help meet the nation's target of reducing emissions to five percent below the year 2000 levels.
CottonInfo and NSW DPI have developed a series of six fact sheets designed to outline the opportunities for the cotton industry under the Emissions Reduction Fund. These six fact sheets can be downloaded via the links below.
This fact sheet outlines how irrigation benchmarking can be used to gauge water use efficiency (WUE) performance. The two key WUE performance indicators are Irrigation Water Use Index (IWUI) and Gross Production Water Use Index (GPWUI).