Had a quick opportunity to catch up with @PiyushGoyal at the opening of #BharatTex2024 this morning. Both Australia and India benefitting from tariff reductions in the textile sector under our FTA, #ECTA. #TextileExpo #Indiantextiles @DoC_GoI @PiyushGoyalOffc @TexMinIndia

The entire crowd in awe of amazing @agintegrity (TGS old boy) regaling courageous Everest adventures at Aust Cotton Awards. Inspiring leadership 👏 & $450socks #embracethesuck #attitudedeterminesaltitude @CottonAustralia @grainsandfibre @ToowoombaGS @JoSheppard04 @fleuranderson

What a start to the Cotton Collective! We couldn't be prouder to share updates yesterday on the Richard Williams Research Initiative and announce Jamie Hopkinson as our esteemed 2023 CSD Researcher of the Year award winner! Excited for day 2! Drop by our stand & say hello!🎉

Spine tingling talk from Shane Webke about safety - “safety is an active decision”

CRDC's General Manager #Innovation @Allan__Williams & @CottonAustralia's Cotton to Market Lead Brooke Summers have just returned from the @BCICotton Conference in Amsterdam. They were among 330 participants from 34 countries discussing critical #cotton issues. #ausag #agchatoz

The @GuardianAus refuses to publish information that allows a correct and more balanced view on pesticides. It’s the third separate occasion that they have done so. Disappointing double standards for a publication that believes in information equality. So here it is. #agchatoz

Today is World Cotton Day! @cottonfarmgirl is a Regional Manager for @CottonAustralia in the Central Highlands. Learn what sparked her passion for the agriculture industry and hear about the qualifications she’s gained. https://t.co/wC01ck4jeC #occupationspotlight

Big $$$ and big crops… it’s an interesting time for @CottonAustralia “But perhaps what makes this year's harvest more remarkable is the fact the industry found a home for the bumper crop without selling to the world's largest textile-producing nation” https://t.co/iokgseOrK3

1/5 It’s a basic tenet of journalism to get the facts right @GuardianAus @ToryShepherd The 450GL was not embedded in the Water Act 2007. It was announced five years later by Gillard on 26 October 2012 as a last minute promise to SA. This is easy to look up and verify.

5/5 and finally, @GuardianAus is misleading readers to keep reporting only 2GL of the 450 has been recovered, as if that’s all the Basin Plan has delivered, without putting that in the context that 2100 GL has already been recovered toward the Plan’s core target. @lenoretaylor

4/5 journalists rightly don’t accept anything industry says without checking - they should apply the same scrutiny to what others claim. In this case, @ToryShepherd has reported incorrect claims about the 450, which could easily have been cross-checked.

3/5 The 450 is also not mandatory; not least as participation is voluntary. The October 2012 hydrology report used to justify the 450 says clearly it’s primarily intended to benefit the Chowilla floodplain in the Riverland, not the Coorong.

2/5 Basin Plan sets out (17.7) the ways the 450 can be recovered; buybacks is not one. Tony Burke on ABC Country Hour in October 2012 said buybacks were not on the table due to socioeconomic concerns, the Plan’s target was 2750 GL (not 3200 as some claim) & the 450 was an extra

The 2021 Australian cotton sustainability update has just been released. Read our progress towards Sustainable Development Goals and a sustainable cotton industry ➡️ https://t.co/7vDXBGreg9 #sustainability #cotton #ausag #agriculture #environment @CottonResearch

Improving water use efficiency within sustainable river limits is an aim of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Aus cotton industry. Aus cotton water use efficiency improved 3.7% in 2021 ➡️ https://t.co/7vDXBGreg9 #sustainability #cotton #agriculture @CottonResearch

We were pleased to meet with #Queensland's Minister for Employment and Small Business and Minister for Training and Skills Development, @DiFarmerMP today as she visited #cotton farms in #Dalby. #qldpol

Cotton Australia was pleased to meet new federal Agriculture Mininster, @MurrayWatt in #Emerald today, where he received a hands-on look at our industry. #auspol #cotton #agriculture #ausag

@NationalFarmers @afsnsw @tonymahar @CottonAustralia @AgForceQLD Thanks for joining me @afsnsw and @tonymahar - a great start to a successful partnership between the new Govt and @NationalFarmers.

@CottonResearch @NationalFarmers @CottonAustralia Thanks Ross and @CottonAustralia reps for hosting me on my first farm visit as the new Ag Minister. Some great discussions about the challenges and opportunities in the sector.

Back on the Country Hour today 📻 @sokitomi provides update on Tarwoo cotton gin @AdamKayCotton on what's pushing the cotton price⬆️ 🐂Foot and mouth disease concerns 🌱@jedmatz WA/NT innovation hub 🐟& plans to build a barramundi farm... in Victoria! https://t.co/CVy51cRZ1o