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PhD: Next-generation fertilisers for nutrient stewardship in cotton production logo
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PhD: Next-generation fertilisers for nutrient stewardship in cotton production

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

About half of the world’s used soda-lime glass (container glass) is unfit for recycling, but a newly developed process can extract sodium silicate from it. Sodium silicate is a feedstock widely used in making detergents, paper and shoes. New evidence also suggests its use as a fertiliser for plant growth,...

15 Jan 2017 - 15 Jan 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), The University of Queensland (UQ), New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI), Cotton Seed Distributors (CSD)

Utilizing plant-based sensing techniques for improving water profitability in fully and partially irrigated cotton logo
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Utilizing plant-based sensing techniques for improving water profitability in fully and partially irrigated cotton

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

Water is the most limiting factor for cotton production in Australia. This project aims to help optimise the irrigation strategies for fully irrigated and partially irrigated cotton by utilising plant-based sensing techniques including canopy temperature and UAV thermal imaging. The project will also provide technical and extension support to the...

1 Jul 2018 - 30 Jun 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

PhD: Electrophysiological and molecular identification of novel biopesticides logo
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PhD: Electrophysiological and molecular identification of novel biopesticides

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This PhD project aims to identify and develop new tools for integrated pest management in cotton. It is part of a wider CRDC project UWS1401: Novel insecticides and synergists from endemic and exotic flora. While adoption of transgenic cotton has lowered synthetic insecticide use against Helicoverpa spp., secondary pests, eg,...

1 Jul 2015 - 30 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Western Sydney University (WSU), Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

Optimising the management of manures in southern NSW cotton production logo
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Optimising the management of manures in southern NSW cotton production

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project aims to assist cotton growers in the irrigated Riverina region of southern NSW better estimate how chicken and cattle manure may be applied to reduce synthetic fertiliser inputs without compromising cotton yield and quality. In the southern region of NSW, cotton cropping is located in close proximity to...

1 Jul 2015 - 30 Sep 2018

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Deakin University, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)

A novel SLW management tactic that reduces reliance on insecticides. logo
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A novel SLW management tactic that reduces reliance on insecticides.

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) commonly known as silver leaf whitefly (SLW) is a serious global pest and plant-virus vector, affecting a wide range of agricultural and horticultural crops, ornamental plants and weed species. In Australian cotton systems, SLW is a major pest because of its potential to contaminate cotton...

1 Jul 2017 - 30 Jun 2019

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ), Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), The University of Greenwich (UK)

Northern Australia Cotton Development & Coordination Leader logo
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Northern Australia Cotton Development & Coordination Leader

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project provided agronomic support, science leadership and coordination for a developing cotton industry in the tropical north of Australia, predominantly north of the Tropic of Capricorn. The provision of technical knowledge was supported by trials and modelling and focussed on biophysical challenges such as pest management, prevention of nitrogen...

1 Oct 2015 - 30 Sep 2018

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Science leadership for cotton development in Northern Australia logo
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Science leadership for cotton development in Northern Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project, a continuation of CRDC Project CSP1602, provides science leadership for potential new cotton developments in northern Australia. Proposed Summer cotton cropping enables Winter double cropping, with grain/fodder and cottonseed as a protein source for beef cattle. This project coordinates industry activities, including extension of research, while providing technical...

1 Oct 2018 - 30 Sep 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Ord River District Co-operative, Department of Agriculture and Fis...

Potential for Broadacre cropping in the Northern Territory logo
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Potential for Broadacre cropping in the Northern Territory

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project aims to support the development of viable broadacre cotton systems in the Northern Territory, through the collation of historical broadacre cropping data, natural resource information and an understanding of market opportunities. The initial focus of the project is on rain-fed and irrigated systems growing cotton and peanut crops,...

1 Jun 2019 - 31 Dec 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA), Department of Industry and Fisheries (NTDPIF), Grains Research an...

PhD: Classifying the suitability of Murrumbidgee valley soils for cotton production logo
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PhD: Classifying the suitability of Murrumbidgee valley soils for cotton production

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

Soil constraints are one of the major challenges for long term profitability in southern New South Wales (NSW) cotton growing areas. While extensive work has been done on soil–cotton relationships, most of this research has focused on grey–black vertosols which dominate northern growing regions and are well understood. As the...

23 Mar 2020 - 24 Mar 2023

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Sydney (USYD), Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

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SATACROP

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project provides support to an online crop mapping tool, SataCrop, designed to reduce the risk of damage to sensitive crops including cotton, resulting from off target spray drift. The approach is to allow growers to communicate the location of their crops by type to reduce the risk of off-target...

1 Jul 2019 - 30 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Australia, Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Precision Cropping Technologies