Nevertire. The Auscott cotton gin and rolls of cotton in the rain.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and they offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.
Nevertire. The Auscott cotton gin and rolls of cotton in the rain.
Auscott. This cotton company was founded in 1963 by Boswell Company using the knowhow of two American cotton farmers. They started at Narrabri with 1,700 hectares of cotton and a cotton gin (mill). They acquired land near Warren and built their third gin followed soon after by a fourth at Trangie also in the Macquarie River valley. Next they started in the Moree district and in the last decade they have expanded into the Murrumbidgee River valley. They process about 16 million bales of cotton in the gins annually. Their farmers use the latest laser levelling for furrow or drip irrigation, soil moisture measuring technology etc. and the land has crop rotations of wheat, canola, and sorghum. Since 1969 they have award university scholarships in agriculture to one student from Dubbo, Narrabri, Moree and they offer other scholarships to Hay High School students. Cotton farming has ancient origins with species developed in India, the Middle East and South America. It is a crop used for fibre for textiles but the plant also produces seed for cottonseed oil. India and China and currently the major producers of cotton but Australia ranks about 7th of world producers. It likes alluvial black soils to grow in as are found in the Warren district. It can grow in sub-tropical regions provided soil temperature is suitable for germination and that day time temperatures are not above 32 degrees Celsius at harvest time. In the Macquarie Valley cotton is sown in the warm spring, grown through the summer and harvested from April onwards in the autumn. The plants grow to 1.2 metres in height. The flowers are replaced by fruits known as cotton boles full of cotton lint and seeds. At the gin the seeds are extracted from the boles. In Australia the industry if highly mechanised and efficient. Water used for irrigating cotton is slightly higher than that used for growing fruit trees and vegetables commercially and considerably less than that used for growing rice. Irrigation water is captured through water recycling systems and re-used for subsequent irrigations. Australia produces between 1 and 4 million bales of cotton a year. Around 90% of cotton in Australia is grown on family farms and not on large company properties.