Cotton touches all of our lives and is grown by Aussie farmers under the Australian sun. Today’s modern cotton industry is an agricultural success story. Here you’ll learn all about the people, the natural resources and the technology that makes it happen.

The average Australian cotton farm:

• is family owned and operated
• directly creates jobs for 6-7 people
• is run by farmers with an average age of 39
• grows 495 hectares of cotton, comprising 17% of the total farm area
• supplements cotton with other crops including wheat, chickpeas and sorghum, and many Australian cotton farmers also graze sheep and cattle
• dedicates 42% of farm area to native vegetation

• Basics

  Cotton is everywhere you look. We sleep in it, dry ourselves with it, wrap our bodies in it - we even cook wi...

• Community

  Cotton is grown in 152 communities from Emerald in the north of Queensland right down to Griffith in southern ...

• Science & Innovation

  Australia’s cotton industry is underpinned by an enormous research effort that is funded by cotton growers i...

• Environment

  Soil, water, plants, animals and air are all part of what makes a dynamic and healthy cotton farming system. ...

• Economics

  The cotton industry is an integral part of the Australian economy, worth more than $2 billion per-annum in exp...