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Post Doc: Understanding and planning for the future cotton workforce logo
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Post Doc: Understanding and planning for the future cotton workforce

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This investment investigates the potential impact of digital agriculture on the skills required for the next generation of workers, the implications for work adjustment, and the ongoing development of these workers. It aims to provide best practice performance standards for growers and employees in an emerging digital environment.

3 Oct 2017 - 30 Sep 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), University of Southern Queensland (USQ), University of Nevada

Thresholds for resilience in regional communities logo
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Thresholds for resilience in regional communities

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

The resilience of cotton communities is important to the industry’s performance and sustainability. Through this project, a participatory resilience assessment with regional cotton communities is being undertaken to identify adaptive responses to change and contributions the cotton sector can make. It seeks to identify critical threats, major thresholds or tipping...

3 Sep 2018 - 30 Jul 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), The University of Melbourne, University of New England (UNE)

Grassroots Grant: On-farm evaluation of pumping telemetry logo
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Grassroots Grant: On-farm evaluation of pumping telemetry

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This investment will undertake an on-farm evaluation of telemetry infrastructure compatible with a non-urban water metering framework for water monitoring. With the current demand for growers to be compliant with incoming non-urban metering requirements, there is unprecedented demand for information on metering telemetry technology. The objective of this investment is...

1 Sep 2017 - 31 Aug 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Macquarie Cotton Growers Association, Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Cotton Info, Macquarie River Food and Fibre

Grassroots Grant: Demonstration farm of IoTR and LoRaWAN technology logo
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Grassroots Grant: Demonstration farm of IoTR and LoRaWAN technology

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This investment supports on-farm demonstration of IoT (internet of things) sensor technology and transmission of sensor output data via low power, long range (LoRaWAN) network primarily in the area of water monitoring and control during the cotton crop growth period. Build your own and commercial packages will be demonstrated together...

1 Nov 2019 - 15 Aug 2020

New South Wales, Australia

St George CGA, Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), CottonInfo, Goanna Ag

Grassroots grants: NT Cotton Industry Development - Promoting Biosecurity of the emerging cotton industry to the NT community and engaging growers in MyBMP logo
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Grassroots grants: NT Cotton Industry Development - Promoting Biosecurity of the emerging cotton industry to the NT community and engaging growers in MyBMP

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

The objective of this project is to communicate the biosecurity protocols for the cotton industry. In addition, it will focus on building capacity for the emerging cotton industry in northern Australia with the aim of achieving 100% engagement in the updated Northern Cotton MyBMP.

1 Aug 2020 - 30 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Northern Territory Farmers Association (NTFA), Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade (NTDPIR) [NT]

Grassroots Grant: DIGITALLY ENABLED COTTON FARMS logo
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Grassroots Grant: DIGITALLY ENABLED COTTON FARMS

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This investment explores the barriers to adoption of digital farming technologies including infrastructure deficiencies.

1 Sep 2020 - 1 Oct 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Macquarie Cotton Growers Association, Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), CottonInfo, Mungindi Cotton Growers Association

Grassroots Grant: Digitally Ready Cotton Farmers logo
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Grassroots Grant: Digitally Ready Cotton Farmers

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This participatory program will work with growers to establish digital ready platforms for the ongoing use of precision agriculture technologies. The investment will target guidance and training to develop data standardisation to generate, store, share and make the most of their digital ag data.

1 Sep 2020 - 31 May 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Southern Valley Cotton Growers Association, Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Irrigation Research and Extension Committee (IREC), I-Ag P/L,

Grassroots Grant: 2019 Grower Development and Extension Programs and Off Target Spray Drift Mitigation logo
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Grassroots Grant: 2019 Grower Development and Extension Programs and Off Target Spray Drift Mitigation

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This cross-industry outreach program targets the management of off-target spray drift, especially the impact of phenoxy herbicides on cotton production. It will target the cotton industry as well as the other industries including dryland cropping and grazing, rice, grains and horticultural production systems and both the potential drift issues that...

1 Nov 2018 - 30 Sep 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Southern Valleys Cotton Growers Association, Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Irrigation Research and Extension Committee (IREC), SOS Macquaire Valley, Rice Grower Assoc...

Grassroots Grant: Fostering crop RD&E collaboration and leadership in Northern Australia logo
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Grassroots Grant: Fostering crop RD&E collaboration and leadership in Northern Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project will engage with crop producers across northern Australia to determine the most appropriate structure and arrangements for establishing an industry-based leadership and coordination group to prioritise and drive crop research and development in northern Western Australia, the Northern Territory and northern Queensland. Such a group could support the...

14 Nov 2016 - 30 Apr 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Northern Australia Crop Research Alliance Pty Ltd, Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Far North Qld Sustainable Cropping Group, NACRA

Grassroots Grant: On farm evaluation of the IoT technologies logo
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Grassroots Grant: On farm evaluation of the IoT technologies

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This investment supports on-farm demonstration of IoT (internet of things) sensor technology and transmission of sensor output data via low power, long range (LoRaWAN) network primarily in the area of water monitoring and control during the cotton crop growth period. This investment will focus on integrating current technology to enable...

1 Jan 2019 - 15 Jun 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Macquarie Cotton Growers Association, Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Cotton Australia, Cotton Seed Distributors (CSD), CottonInfo, Goanna Ag