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CRDC marks Allan Williams' 2026 industry service award with a career retrospective, covering his decades across cotton research bodies and his recent departure as the corporation's executive director.
Australia's cotton research body CRDC has appointed Dr Georgina Pengilley as Managing Director from late July 2026, with Allan Williams stepping aside after 14 years.
Ag Econ leads a research effort testing floating solar on farm water storages, backed by a $6 million federal grant, with CRDC and two universities as research partners.
CRDC announces the launch of Agricultural Innovation Australia's Environmental Accounting Platform, giving farm sectors a standardised way to measure carbon; nine rural research and development corporations invested in building it.
CRDC profiles NanoSoils Bio founder Dr Cong Vu, whose nanoparticle crop technology earned a 2023 ABARES award and a CRDC grant, ahead of the startup's Startup Alley appearance at evokeAG in Perth.
CRDC announces that an irrigation algorithm developed by University of Southern Queensland and CSIRO researchers has gone to Goanna Ag, which will fold it into its GoField service to guide cotton growers' first irrigation.
Grains and cotton research bodies GRDC and CRDC announce a $5.5m, five-year partnership with agtech firm Goanna Ag to build a network of weather stations warning growers about hazardous spray conditions.
CRDC profile celebrates FluroSat founder Anastasia Volkova topping The Australian's 100 Innovators list, recalling its startup workshop support since 2017 and FluroSat's acquisition of Dagan's soil modelling capability to form Regrow Ag.
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Two rural research corporations ran federal-backed innovation challenges, awarding grants totalling nearly $5 million, with four agricultural technology companies advancing to million-dollar proof-of-concept funding.
Six small and medium businesses will share federal BRII grant funding to develop and test ways of tackling spray drift in cotton, in a challenge the publisher is helping solve.
A CRDC-funded canopy sensor built by CSIRO researchers at Narrabri will reach the market via Goanna Ag, helping growers fine-tune irrigation without losing yield; FarmOnline ran the coverage.
A University of New England-led project with UK firm BioCarbon Engineering will test drone and tractor seeding for cheaper revegetation of cotton farmland, backed by a $1.3 million government grant won by CRDC.
Cotton RDC's site revisits agtech startup FluroSat's finalist placing in evokeAG's 2019 pitch tent, recalling founder Anastasia Volkova's Cotton X-Lab incubation and her later $1 million seed raise.
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| Company | Stage | Announced | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildfire Energy | Grant | 28 Oct 2021 | $1m | |
| LX Design House | Grant | 12 Jan 2021 | ≤$100k | |
| Advanced Agricultural Systems | Grant | 12 Jan 2021 | ≤$100k | |
| Hydgene | Grant | 12 Jan 2021 | $100k | |
| Wildfire Energy | Grant | 12 Jan 2021 | $100k | |
| FluroSat | Seed | Dec 2017 | $1m | |
| FluroSat | Accelerator | 2017 | - |
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