Fibre quality is a major determinant of price for cotton growers, and even minor imperfections can cause significant downgrades for an entire bale.
This article from The Land newspaper outlines a new University of Sydney research project, supported by CRDC, that aims to find a way to prevent or circumvent some of that variability and lay the groundwork for selective harvesting of cotton in the future.
Fortunately, researcher Mikaela Tilse doesn't have to start from scratch - cotton growers and gins have accumulated mountains of data in recent decades.
CRDC R&D manager Merry Conaty said cotton quality had been a major area of research in Australia for 30 years or more.
For more: https://www.theland.com.au/story/7904078/researchers-cotton-on-to-fibre…
