Cotton

Cotton picking under way in CQ, Ord still planting

Cotton Australia is expecting the cotton pick now underway to yield more than 4.5 million bales after a mixed growing season, and with planting in the Ord yet to finish…Read More

Emma Alsop, March 13, 2024

Registrations invited for Brookstead cotton event

The Bayer Cotton Grower of the Year Field Day is being held next Wednesday and includes a farm tour and insights from a variety of speakers. ..Read More

Grain Central, March 11, 2024

Gin opening to drive cotton exports out of NT

The NT’s first cotton gin is now open, and bales it produces are expected to utilise a new pathway to offshore markets through Darwin Port. ..Read More

Emma Alsop, January 12, 2024

Collaboration key to unlocking Ord cotton potential

Ord River farmer and Nuffied scholar Fritz Bolten says collaborative research is key to unlocking the ideal farming systems for growers in northern WA…Read More

Grain Central, December 11, 2023

Australian cotton crop expected to surpass 4.1Mb

Cotton Australia is predicting the 2023-24 crop could reach over 4.1Mb, with recent rain increasing southern Qld and northern NSW dryland plantings…Read More

Grain Central, December 7, 2023

Credentialed cotton could boost grower power: Statham

Regenerative cotton could put more power and income in the hands of Australian growers, says Sundown Pastoral Company’s David Statham…Read More

Emma Alsop, October 19, 2023

Ord gin build starts, NT’s nears commissioning

Northern Australia’s cotton industry is powering ahead, with the gin north of Katherine starting operations in December and the nearby Kununurra facility under construction…Read More

Emma Alsop, October 16, 2023

Carroll Cotton progresses new gin plans

Carroll Cotton is building its second cotton gin on the Liverpool Plains of NSW at Colly Blue to supplement capacity at its Carroll site…Read More

Emma Alsop, October 5, 2023

Cotton ginning nears completion as planting starts

Almost 90pc of Australia’s cotton crop estimated at 5.5M-bale crop has been ginned and classed as planting of new-crop starts in southern valleys…Read More

Emma Alsop, September 25, 2023

AGM wraps up successful year for CSD

Despite six flood events closures that plagued the Wee Waa district, CSD has wrapped up a successful year as Peter Graham prepares to hand over the reins…Read More

Grain Central, June 21, 2023

Cotton nears home straight on picking

Picking of what could be another record cotton crop is around 85pc through, and meeting subdued export demand…Read More

Liz Wells, June 19, 2023

Cotton Australia sees 5.2Mb crop as pick gathers pace

Cotton Australia is forecasting the crop now being picked to yield 5.2Mb, up from 5Mb seen in December thanks to warm and dry weather at the tail end of the growing season…Read More

Grain Central, April 27, 2023

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