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.
Episodes
67 episodes
Spray drift management for summer with Doug McCollum
The importance of good spray drift management during the high-risk summer months can't be overstated.In this episode we talk about controlling the controllables (and managing the uncontrollable elements), the critical role of communicati...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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10:45
Michael Scobie: Tech & Tell (mini series)
CottonInfo has a new Irrigation Technical Lead - Toowoomba-based Michael Scobie.Mick is a certified irrigation designer and is involved in one of CRDC's new research projects that is focused on reducing water loss from storages using flo...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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8:12
Quentin Feery-Lawrence: Tech & Tell (mini series)
Meet our inaugural CottonInfo Digital Agriculture Technical Lead, Quentin Feery-Lawrence. Quentin is fresh off an Agtech scoping tour across major cotton valleys, where he visited growers and technology providers to identify common challenges a...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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13:27
What you need to know about fire ants
Tom Roberts from the National Fire Ant Eradication Program joins the podcast to discuss the invasive characteristics of fire ants and the broad risks they pose to agriculture, infrastructure, and the wider community.While fire ants are n...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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12:34
Jon Welsh: Tech & Tell (mini series)
Jon Welsh is the Principal Climate Analyst & Economist at Ag Econ has been part of CottonInfo for more than a decade and has become a trusted Technical Lead in his expert fields of climate, energy and carbon.In thi...
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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15:27
Managing feral pigs in cotton country with Matt Gentle and Tony Lockrey
Join us for an in-depth discussion with QDPI Principal Scientist Matt Gentle from Biosecurity Queensland's Pest Animal Research Centre and agronomist Tony Lockery, Manager of AMPS based in Moree.In this episode we cover feral pig biology...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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25:17
The value of sustainability to Australian cotton with Chris Cosgrove
The latest Sustainability Report for the Australian cotton industry has just been released. We catch up with Chris Cosgrove to find out about some of the report findings, what it means for growers and exactly what it means when we talk about su...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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15:43
Understanding carbon in a dryland farming system
In this episode we sit down with CottonInfo’s Technical Lead for Climate, Carbon & Energy Jon Welsh from Ag Econ, and his Technical Lead support & Ag Econ colleague Johanna Hansson to talk about recent research that’s explored the econo...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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14:33
Stacey Vogel: Tech & Tell (mini series)
Stacey Vogel is CottonInfo's Technical Lead for Natural Resource Management and has made a career out of supporting growers in a number of different areas including biodiversity, and waterway and soil management. In the latest 'Tech...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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14:42
René van der Sluijs: Tech & Tell (mini series)
We brought you '10 Questions with the Team' to introduce and re-introduce our Regional Extension Officers ... now it's time for 'Tech & Tell' with our CottonInfo Technical Leads.In this episode we get to know our Technical Lead for F...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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20:21
Managing ratoons and volunteer cotton with Eric Koetz
In this episode we sit down with CottonInfo Tech Lead for Weed Management, Eric Koetz, to talk key herbicide considerations, management options for irrigated and dryland operations, XtendFlex options, and the impact of recent wet conditions on ...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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10:09
Tami Buranda: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.In this episode, meet our new REO in Central Queensland, Tami Bu...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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16:08
Annabel Twine: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.In this episode, come and have a chat with Annabel Twine, our RE...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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9:55
Andrew McKay: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.In this episode, find out a bit more about Andrew McKay. He's do...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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8:44
Nicole Scott: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
Nicole Scott is employed by Cotton Australia as the myBMP Customer Service Manager and is also part of the CottonInfo team.Nicole's career background is incredibly impressive and varied and she's now been with the myBMP program for more...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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9:01
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Bob Ford: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.In this episode, find out a bit more about Bob Ford - a familiar...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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12:07
Rochelle Field: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.In this episode, meet Rochelle Field - CottonInfo's new REO in t...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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9:09
Greg Bramley: 10 questions with the team (mini series)
It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.In this episode, get to know the new CottonInfo REO in the Gwydi...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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9:02
Blake Palmer: 10 questions with the team (mini-series)
It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.In this episode, get to know one of our new REOs in the Namoi - ...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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14:46
Janelle Montgomery: 10 questions with the team (mini-series)
It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.In this episode, get to know our Program Manager, Janelle Montgo...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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13:32
Kieran O'Keeffe: 10 questions with the team (mini-series)
It’s the podcast within a podcast! In the '10 questions with the team' mini-series we meet the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP managers - and even our own Program Manager.In this first...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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9:55
Fibre Quality in Focus with René van der Sluijs
In this episode we sit down for an update on René’s recent overseas visit to present to the National Cotton Council of America, his learnings on what RD&E priorities American and Australian cotton growers share, as well as his message to in...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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17:23
A chat with the experts on vert, fusarium and what you can do NOW for NEXT season
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 conversation.As late season disease sampling gets underway, we extend a conversation had a recent Area W...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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18:04
Making the most of WAND (Weather and Networked Data system)
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 update on uptake of the system that’s using CRDC & GRDC backed science to help growers detect and predict hazardous ...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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10:19
Disease news: Announcement of new CottonInfo Disease Tech Lead & update on the Australian Cotton Disease Collaboration
CottonInfo is very pleased to announce its new Technical Lead for Disease - our very own Sharna Holman. Sharna has led industry in the Tech Lead role for Biosecurity and the addition of the Disease portfolio makes perfect sense.Sharna j...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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12:43