The Focus on NRM research series introduces you to the key cotton NRM researchers and their work.

The Focus on NRM research series introduces you to the key cotton NRM researchers and their work.

This research studies the rate of recovery of a depleted aquifer under variable climatic conditions.

An Investigation on where, when and how riparian vegetation regeneration occurs across the northern Murray-Darling Basin.

Research has shown that well-managed, good condition river red gum ecosystems on cotton farms provide important habitat for threatened and declining woodland birds.

This project is investigating water bird communities on cotton storages in the Gwydir and Namoi Valleys.

In the Australian cotton industry nutrition is a significant cost with 75% of irrigated cotton respondents to the 2012-13 grower practice survey spending between $300 and $600 per hectare on nutritional inputs for the

In the Namoi valley a pilot project has trialled exciting new ways to engage growers and their families in managing natural vegetation on their farms under best practise.

Snapshot of project achievements:

• Five farmers with improved natural resourcemanagement knowledge and skills

• 16,830ha of native vegetation conditionbenchmarked

Bugilbone Ridge Feral Pig Management

In the Namoi Valley a pilot project has trialled exciting

new ways to engage growers and their families

in managing natural vegetation on their farms

Ashley & Rowena Feral Pig Management

In the Gwydir valley a series of workshops on

vegetation management were held with 43

landholders within the Ashley and Rowena area