Cotton’s rebounding season faces rainy risks

By Andrew Marshall
Updated August 29 2016 - 7:08am, first published August 26 2016 - 4:45am
After last season's dry conditions and limited irrigation water availability cut planting areas 50 per cent Australia-wide, too much wet weather may now be a risk to the cotton crop, particularly in the burgeoning southern NSW sector.
After last season's dry conditions and limited irrigation water availability cut planting areas 50 per cent Australia-wide, too much wet weather may now be a risk to the cotton crop, particularly in the burgeoning southern NSW sector.

Much-improved rainfall conditions in most cotton growing areas look set to significantly bolster Namoi Cotton’s ginning and cottonseed business for 2016-17.

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