Australia’s earliest cotton harvested as Ord gears up for historic first crop

Queensland cotton farmer Hamish Millar said his latest crop is the earliest crop he has ever harvested. Picking has begun in central Queensland of what is thought to be the earliest harvest of commercial-scale, irrigated cotton in Australia in recent decades. The record-breaking harvest coincides with the planting of historic crops in WA’s Ord region […]

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