Last week, Cotton Grower Association (CGA) members, Cotton Australia Chair Liz Stott, and Cotton Australia Regional Managers and senior management participated in an online workshop to share ideas around the purpose and roles of Cotton Grower Associations and how they can be best supported. The workshop was preceded by Cotton Grower Associations submitting a comprehensive questionnaire on how they operated, what was important to them, how they supported their communities, and what their challenges were.

The workshop further explored these themes, as well as diving a little deeper into how Cotton Australia could better support Cotton Grower Associations. Unsurprisingly, water was nominated as a major policy area where Cotton Grower Associations would like more support, but the nature of that support also varied depending on whether the area also had a strong and active irrigator group.

Cotton Australia would particularly welcome any further feedback on this topic from both Cotton Grower Associations and individual growers, please email Cotton Australia General Manager Michael Murry [email protected]. Cotton Australia will be taking recommendations from the workshop to the Board, and there will be another workshop scheduled after the Australian Cotton Conference.