It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.

In this episode, find out a bit more about Bob Ford - a familiar face and name in the Namoi - who is now one of CottonInfo's Regional Extension Officers for the Namoi Valley, as well as contributing one day a week to the myBMP program.

Bob's been working in the Australian cotton industry since 1993 and says it's all thanks to his involvement in local rugby union and the mentorship of a local Namoi cotton grower.

It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.

In this episode, meet Rochelle Field - CottonInfo's new REO in the Macquarie Valley.

After originally aspiring to be a vet, Rochelle fell in love with the cotton industry after a summer working as a bug checker back in 2017 - and she's been hooked ever since!

It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.

In this episode, get to know the new CottonInfo REO in the Gwydir - Greg Bramley.

After growing up on a mixed farm in the Murray Valley, Greg's had a diverse career, from starting as a rural accountant to working in the NSW Police, to honing his technical skills in ag science.

It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.

In this episode, get to know one of our new REOs in the Namoi - who also happens to be our CottonInfo Soil Health Tech Lead - Blake Palmer.

Blake has multi-generational roots in the Namoi and despite his initial reluctance to head into tertiary education, he's now passionate about applying research to benefit the cotton industry and is also working on his PhD.

It's the podcast within a podcast! '10 questions with the team' introduces the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP Managers.

In this episode, get to know our Program Manager, Janelle Montgomery. Starting out in ag economics, Janelle's heart has always been in the field. After a stint with NAB and ABARES, she headed back to university to do her Masters, followed by a PhD - that set the course for a career in cotton.

It’s the podcast within a podcast! In the '10 questions with the team' mini-series we meet the full CottonInfo team - from Regional Extension Officers, Technical Leads & myBMP managers - and even our own Program Manager.

In this first mini-series episode with sit down for a chat with one of CottonInfo’s original members who has been with the program from the very beginning - Southern NSW Regional Extension Officer, Kieran O’Keeffe.

In this episode we sit down for an update on René’s recent overseas visit to present to the National Cotton Council of America, his learnings on what RD&E priorities American and Australian cotton growers share, as well as his message to industry ahead of the pick and post-harvest processes for the 25/26 season.

Welcome to Season 4 of CottonInfo’s ‘Crop to Top’ podcast! We’re back with our first podcast for 2025 and it’s a cracker of a conversation.

As late season disease sampling gets underway, we extend a conversation had a recent Area Wide Management meeting with Dr Karen Kirby from NSW DPI and Warwick Stiller from CSIRO about verticillium and fusarium, plus the considerations growers should make now for next season.