CottonInfo: Crop to Top
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CottonInfo: Crop to Top
CottonInfo is the Australian cotton industry’s joint extension program.In the Crop to Top podcast, we bring you conversations with the program's Regional Extension Officers and Technical Leads, as well as researchers and cotton growers connected to CottonInfo with a story to share.
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70 episodis
10 years on: CottonInfo Irrigation Automation Tour (Part 2) with Andrew Watson
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In Part 2 of our 10 years on from the CottonInfo Irrigation Automation Tour pod chats, we catch up with NSW cotton grower Andrew...
((SEASON 5)) 10 years on: CottonInfo Irrigation Automation Tour (Part 1) with Janelle Montgomery
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Welcome to Season 5 of the CottonInfo 'Crop to Top' podcast!
A decade on, the 2015 CottonInfo Irrigation Automation Tour is...
How to manage Christmas and the cotton season: tips from fatigue and sleep expert, Prof. Siobahn Banks
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While it's a much looked forward to time of year, there's no getting around the fact that the silly season coincides with one of...
Spray drift management for summer with Doug McCollum
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The importance of good spray drift management during the high-risk summer months can't be overstated.
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Michael Scobie: Tech & Tell (mini series)
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CottonInfo has a new Irrigation Technical Lead - Toowoomba-based Michael Scobie.
Mick is a certified irrigation designer an...
Quentin Feery-Lawrence: Tech & Tell (mini series)
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Meet our inaugural CottonInfo Digital Agriculture Technical Lead, Quentin Feery-Lawrence. Quentin is fresh off an Agtech scoping...
What you need to know about fire ants
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Tom Roberts from the National Fire Ant Eradication Program joins the podcast to discuss the invasive characteristics of fire ants...
Jon Welsh: Tech & Tell (mini series)
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Jon Welsh is the Principal Climate Analyst & Economist at Ag Econ has been part of CottonInfo for more than a decade and has beco...
Managing feral pigs in cotton country with Matt Gentle and Tony Lockrey
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Join us for an in-depth discussion with QDPI Principal Scientist Matt Gentle from Biosecurity Queensland's Pest Animal Research C...
The value of sustainability to Australian cotton with Chris Cosgrove
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The latest Sustainability Report for the Australian cotton industry has just been released. We catch up with Chris Cosgrove to fi...
Understanding carbon in a dryland farming system
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In this episode we sit down with CottonInfo’s Technical Lead for Climate, Carbon & Energy Jon Welsh from Ag Econ, and his Technic...
Stacey Vogel: Tech & Tell (mini series)
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Stacey Vogel is CottonInfo's Technical Lead for Natural Resource Management and has made a career out of supporting growers in a...
René van der Sluijs: Tech & Tell (mini series)
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We brought you '10 Questions with the Team' to introduce and re-introduce our Regional Extension Officers ... now it's time for '...
Managing ratoons and volunteer cotton with Eric Koetz
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In this episode we sit down with CottonInfo Tech Lead for Weed Management, Eric Koetz, to talk key herbicide considerations, mana...
Tami Buranda: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
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It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Off...
Annabel Twine: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
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It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Off...
Andrew McKay: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
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It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Off...
Nicole Scott: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
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Nicole Scott is employed by Cotton Australia as the myBMP Customer Service Manager and is also part of the CottonInfo team.
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Bob Ford: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
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It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Off...
Rochelle Field: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
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It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Off...
Greg Bramley: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
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It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Off...
Blake Palmer: 10 questions with the team (mini-series)
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It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Off...
Janelle Montgomery: 10 questions with the team (mini-series)
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It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Off...
Kieran O'Keeffe: 10 questions with the team (mini-series)
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It’s the podcast within a podcast! In the '10 questions with the team' mini-series we meet the full CottonInfo team - from Region...
Fibre Quality in Focus with René van der Sluijs
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In this episode we sit down for an update on René’s recent overseas visit to present to the National Cotton Council of America, h...
A chat with the experts on vert, fusarium and what you can do NOW for NEXT season
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Welcome to Season 4 of CottonInfo’s ‘Crop to Top’ podcast! We’re back with our first podcast for 2025 and it’s a cracker of a con...
Making the most of WAND (Weather and Networked Data system)
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The WAND system first went live in the Summer of 2022 - now two years on we catch up with Goanna Ag’s CEO Jay Jalota for an updat...
Disease news: Announcement of new CottonInfo Disease Tech Lead & update on the Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration
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CottonInfo is very pleased to announce its new Technical Lead for Disease - our very own Sharna Holman. Sharna has led industry i...
Lessons from the past: from the 'bad old days' to a modern Australian cotton industry
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In this episode we're talking IPM – or Integrated Pest Management – and taking a walk down memory lane when things were not as br...
A deep dive into high priority pest: cotton leaf curl virus
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We take a deep dive into one of the Australian cotton industry’s high priority exotic pests - Cotton Leaf Curl Virus - with Qld D...
High priority pest Lygus: the American experience
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With Version 4 of the Biosecurity Plan for the Australian Cotton Industry recently released, the CottonInfo team is on a mission...
Southern NSW Season Establishment & Climate Forecast Drivers for 24-25 (with Kieran O'Keeffe & Jon Welsh)
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CottonInfo REO for Southern NSW Kieran O’Keeffe & CottonInfo Tech Lead for Climate & Energy Jon Welsh offer a wrap-up of their re...
Gross Margin Outlook for 2024-25 season with Janine Powell
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With planting and/or planting prep underway in all cotton growing valleys, the industry may be wondering what returns could be ex...
Making the Cotton Industry a great place for new entrants
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As season 24/25 gets underway, now is the time to make sure every new hire in your farming business is given the best support to...
The importance of investing in cotton biosecurity research
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CRDC Senior Innovation Broker Susan Maas drops by the 'Crop to Top' podcast studio to talk about how things are changing when it...
The Economics of Irrigation Change
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In this special pod recording live from the 2024 Australian Cotton Conference hear from CottonInfo’s Technical Lead for Energy &...
In conversation with Kirsten Phillips about the National Biosecurity Hub
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In this episode of the Crop to Top 'Biosecurity Excellence Series' we find out more about the National Biosecurity Hub - a centra...
A deep dive discussion into high priority pest: boll weevil (Biosecurity Excellence Series)
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In the last podcast in the Biosecurity Excellence Series, we were joined by Doug McCollum from Cotton Australia and Stuart Kearns...
Preparing a new industry biosecurity plan with Doug McCollum & Stuart Kearns (Biosecurity Excellence Series)
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There’s a new industry biosecurity plan for the cotton industry due for release shortly - but what exactly IS a biosecurity plan,...
Biosecurity Excellence - a conversation with Sharna Holman
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There’s just 6 weeks to go until the 2024 Australian Cotton Conference on Queensland’s Gold Coast!
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