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19th March 2008

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Macintyre Valley cotton growers celebrate their High Achievers.
Despite the smallest cotton planting in over 20 years, about 200 people attended the annual Macintyre Valley Cotton Awards night to acknowledge the local industrys’ high achievers.
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Big Crowd at Macintyre Valley Cotton Field Day
Over one hundred cotton growers and other industry personnel descended upon Goondiwindi last week to discuss diesel, dirt and dollars at the annual Macintyre Valley Cotton Field day.

The topics of the day centered on improving efficiencies in essential farm inputs of water, fertiliser and fuel.

Macintyre Valley Cotton Field Day Committee president David Kelly said the drought in recent season continues to reinforce what a precious resource water is.
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Water Storage solutions at Macintyre Valley Field Day
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Maximising cropping water use efficiency with improved water storage will be one of the highlights of the Macintyre Valley Field Day in Goondiwindi on 19 March.

File photograph of Moree-based agronomists downloading data from a storage meter, to monitor inflows and outflows to the storage.
Maximising cropping water use efficiency with improved water storage will be one of the highlights of the Macintyre Valley Field Day in Goondiwindi on Wednesday, 19 March.

This year the field day is themed “Diesel, Dirt and Dollars” and sponsored by Cotton Australia, Cargill Cotton, and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry as part of the “Growing Cotton’s Future: Tools for Managing the Drought” project.

The field day aims to promote the latest tools and research available to growers to improve water use efficiency and ultimately manage the drought.

The `Dollars' session, chaired by the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&F), focuses on minimising water losses, being the single biggest limiting factor for Macintyre cotton growers.

`Dollars' session convener, DPI&F development extension officer Emma Brotherton, said presentations would address the key sources of water loss.
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Diesel, Dirt and Dollars, the 2008 Macintyre Valley Cotton Field Day

 

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Macintyre Valley Cotton Field Day Committee members Jeff Jones, Kate Arthur, Phil Sloan, David Kelly, Rod Gordon and Dimity Jamieson.
Cotton growers will descend upon Goondwindi on the 19th March for the 2008 Macintyre Valley Cotton Field Day, widely regarded as one of the cotton industry’s premier events. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Diesel, Dirt and Dollars’.

 

The story behind the theme? “These are things that our local growers indicated that were at the forefront of their minds right now” says Macintyre Valley Cotton Field Day Committee President David Kelly.

“Like many districts we’ve seen a real turnaround in the season with good summer rainfall, and while there’s a long way to go before the areas water storages are full, there’s certainly more optimism out there than we’ve seen in recent years”.

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What Happened at the 2007 Macintyre valley Cotton Field Day

 

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Catching up at the trade displays; Paul Regan, Chris Henley, David Evans, Robert Evans, and Matt Cleary.
Around 120 people attended the 2007 Macintyre Valley Cotton field day on March 7, witnessing presentations on labour management, prospects for growing premium fibre and Pima cotton, and the use of composted manure as fertiliser

 

A special feature was presentation of the Cargill Cotton Consistency Award to TSI Ag, ‘Macintyre Downs’ Goondiwindi, which achieved a farm average of 10.33 bales/ha in 2005-06.The award was received by farm manager Hamish Johnston and agronomist Chris Teague.

 

Mike Beeston, Macintyre Valley field day committee member who coordinated the labour management discussions, said there was an enormous amount of interest in the presentation on accessing skilled overseas staff, which is regarded as a big issue for many cotton growers.

 

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President:
David Kelly
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Bec Smith
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0409 919010

 

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