The UNE/CRDC cotton course update and future plans

Abstract

For the 2018–19 delivery of the Cotton Production Course units, UNE mixed up the unit coordination a little so that the load and love could be spread more evenly between Oliver Knox, Rhiannon Smith and Brendan Griffiths. Numbers attending the units also remained good with 52 students in Cotton Production, 18 in Cotton Protection, seven in Cotton in the Environment and six in Cotton Systems with the smaller classes due to timetable restrictions that we hope to have remedied for next year. <br/> The year also presented challenges, none more so than the drought. Touring farms, facilities and support industries and hearing about the impact of the drought was as difficult for the students as it is for those of us working and dealing with it every day.