Cotton set for new frontiers in Qld and Victoria

Andrew Marshall
October 25 2016 - 11:30am
The research and technology tools which make Australia three times more productive as a cotton producer than the global industry average are expected to attract new growers to the crop in northern Australia and Victoria.
The research and technology tools which make Australia three times more productive as a cotton producer than the global industry average are expected to attract new growers to the crop in northern Australia and Victoria.

Australia’s seemingly unstoppable cotton area expansion looks certain to creep further south along the NSW-Victoria border, and probably leap into new irrigation areas in the Queensland Gulf in a few years.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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