Cotton Growing

Farmers and researchers notice a rise in bicoloured weevils feeding on cotton crops in the Northern Territory.

Tributes are flowing in for a central Queensland producer who died with his grandson when machinery rolled on a property at the weekend.

From farm to fabric, West Australian cotton growers are finally able to grow, process and export record amounts of cotton locally.

Southern NSW rice and cotton growers are heading into one of their smallest summer cropping seasons in years, with tight water allocations forcing many to halve their plantings or sit the season out altogether.

Scientists, farmers and the fashion industry collaborate to create a natural fabric that is both woven and knitted, low on emissions and set to shake up how we think about clothing.

The cotton industry in Far North Queensland may be in its infancy, but after the success of this year's crop, growers can see a promising future.

The opening of the Kimberley Cotton Gin means growers will no longer need to transport their cotton more than 3,500 kilometres to Queensland for processing.

John Norman was once lauded as the future of the farming industry. On Wednesday, the award-winning cotton grower was jailed over an $8.7 million fraud that "brought an important public water program into disrepute".

A legal expert says hard questions must be asked after a conflict of interest in the awarding of a lucrative cotton farming contract.

It has been decades since garment manufacturing flourished in Australia, but with rising pressures on the domestic fibre and fashion industry, a strategy is being developed to bring it back.

Indigenous people in the remote community of Jilkminggan fear their springs and creeks will be degraded as a new water licence allows for an 800-hectare irrigated cotton plantation.

An ASX-listed agribusiness will develop 24,000 hectares east of Darwin for cropping and horticulture.

Harry Barclay says the peppercorn tree on his property loses its leaves when nearby cotton farms spray their plants with defoliant, but the environmental regulator says there is no proof of a link.

The northern monsoon is approaching its latest-ever recorded start, meaning crushing humidity, dry floodplains and nervous farmers.

After years planting cotton, a growing region has built up a soil pest that sucks the life out of crops — but there may be a solution on the horizon.

Grapes, cotton and grains are blooming out of Queensland's desert red dirt, prompting the beginning of a brand new industry. But can the dusty outback become more than just grazing land?

A cotton industry advocate says dryland crops are at risk if the regulator lowers the usage rate of a chemical that has been linked to Parkinson's disease.

A foreign company has acquired Australia's biggest cotton ginning business for about $160 million, ending an eight-month bidding war and intervention by the competition watchdog.

One of Australia's remotest agricultural regions would almost double in size under an ambitious plan announced by the West Australian government.

Cotton processed near Katherine and exported from Darwin will be a significant cost-saver for Northern Territory producers hoping its proximity to Asia will give it a competitive advantage.