Cotton Industry Awards announced at Cotton Conference
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The Cotton industry’s top awards for the year have been announced at the glamour event of the biennial Australian Cotton Conference on the Gold Coast, the 2024 Awards Dinner, with the top two awards going to Queenslanders.
The 2024 Bayer Cotton Grower of the year is Scott Balsillie, farm manager for Eastern Australia Agriculture in Dirranbandi while the AgriRisk High Achiever award recipients are Steve and Bridget McVeigh from Dalby on the Darling Downs.
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The 2024 Australian Cotton Conference’s Awards Dinner on the Gold Coast recognised outstanding individuals for their contributions to the cotton industry, with Sharna Holman receiving the CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever of the Year Award, Dr Lisa Bird honoured with the Cotton Seed Distributors Researcher of the Year Award, and Ross Munro recognised with the Incitec Pivot Fertilisers Service to the Cotton Industry Award.
Cotton Australia’s Annual General Meeting has taken place at the venue of the 2024 Cotton Conference on the Gold Coast with three sitting directors reappointed and one new board member elected to the position.
The participants in the 2024 Australia Future Cotton Leaders Program (AFCLP) graduated at the Australian Cotton Conference, after an intense program featuring face-to-face forums, interactive online discussions, one-on-one coaching and integration with industry activities.
The Australian Cotton Industry’s 2023 Sustainability Annual Update is now available, providing a clear overview of our environmental performance and valuable insights for industry stakeholders and partners.
Earlier this week, scholarships for the Australian Cotton Conference on the Gold Coast were awarded to 15 university students, 5 educators, and 38 secondary students with their teachers. The Cotton Australia program aimed to immerse attendees in the cotton industry and connect them with growers and industry representatives.
See the photo highlights from the 2024 Australian Cotton Conference on Flickr. Download the photos from the event on Flickr or check out the highlights on social media.
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Scott’s family has been involved in cotton since his grandfather and uncles started growing cotton in the Miles/Chinchilla area in the 1980’s. Scott first started working fulltime in cotton 25 years ago and today runs farms Clyde and Kio Ora, growing up to 6500 hectares combined.
