International Cotton Advisory Committee members visit Australia
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Finalists for both the 2025 Australian Bayer Cotton Grower of the Year award and the AgriRisk High Achiever of the year award have been announced with the awards to be presented at the Cotton Collective event in Toowoomba in August.
The five finalists range from as far north as Dalby on Queensland’s Darling Downs and to Spring Ridge on the Liverpool Plains in New South Wales.
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Cotton Australia recently hosted Eric Trachtenberg, Executive Director of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), during a week-long visit to learn more about the Australian cotton industry.
Well-known Boggabri cotton grower Andrew Watson has featured in a nationally broadcast 60 Minutes story on the Trump Tariff issues impacting global trade including Australia.
Newly appointed NSW Agriculture Commissioner Alison Stone has held an initial meeting with Cotton Australia CEO Adam Kay to discuss priorities for the agriculture sector and issues affecting cotton growers.
The first-ever Teach the Teacher event in Kununurra was held last week, with 13 participants attending from early childhood through to high school, as well as local parent committee members.
Over the past week, Cotton Australia Regional Manager for the Darling Downs, Howard Coggan, has taken part in a range of student-focused activities aimed at highlighting career pathways and increasing awareness of the cotton industry — from attending the UQ Agricultural Science Society’s Beers 'n' Careers event to leading farm visits for school students across the Darling Downs for hands-on learning experiences.
Students from across Greater Sydney recently came together for the Barker Ag HSC Revision Day in Hornsby, where they heard from industry leaders, including Cotton Australia CEO Adam Kay.
The Queensland Farmers Federation are hosting workshops under the Farm Business Resilience Program including Forecasting to Farm – weather tools to aid seasonal planning webinar and Strengthening the financial security of rural agribusiness women event in Dalby.
The producers of popular 7 network show Farmer Wants a Wife is again calling on single cotton growers to consider applying to join the show for the 2026 season.
Farmers can apply for themselves or if you know of a farmer who might be interested you can ‘dob’ them in.
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The Department of Local Government, Water and Volunteers (DLGWV) is calling for irrigators in central Queensland's Dawson Valley Water Management Area to apply for a share in 90,000ML being released over the next three years from the Dawson River SWIR. |
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The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) is offering scholarships for its 2025/26 Governance Foundations for Not-for-Profit Directors course. The scholarships cover the cost of the program and are aimed at new and aspiring directors of not-for-profit organisations. |
2025 Grower of the Year
2025 Cotton Grower of the Year Finalist: Tom Eather, Bellevue Pastoral Company
Over the coming weeks we will be sharing video case studies from the finalists for the 2025 Grower of the Year Award. To start things off is Tom Eather from Bellevue Pastoral Company. Tom and his sister Julia are fifth-generation farmers growing 1500 ha of cotton (1000ha irrigated, 500ha Dryland) near in Narrabri.
