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MacIntyre Valley Cotton Field Day
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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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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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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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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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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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