((SEASON 5)) 10 years on: CottonInfo Irrigation Automation Tour (Part 1) with Janelle Montgomery Artwork

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((SEASON 5)) 10 years on: CottonInfo Irrigation Automation Tour (Part 1) with Janelle Montgomery

January 10, 2026 • CottonInfo • Season 5 • Episode 1

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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 still referenced as a turning point in how the industry came to understand new irrigation technologies, fostering and supporting the adoption of automation practices in the cotton industry.

In this episode - Part 1 of 3 discussions about the tour - we're joined by CottonInfo Program Manager Janelle Montgomery who was CottonInfo's Irrigation Tech Lead at the time.

Janelle describes how the tour - that ran in late 2015 - was organised to address industry curiosity about siphonless and automated irrigation systems, bringing together a diverse group including growers, consultants, irrigation engineers, researchers, and retailers for a four-day bus trip to southern New South Wales and Victoria.

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