The 2025 Australian Cotton Research Conference was a wonderful opportunity to present, learn and network. We hope that the 180+ delegates (including over 80 speakers) enjoyed the event, and look forward to seeing you again in 2027.

• Download the conference proceedings
• See who won the 2025 AACS awards
• Find out more about our latest life members (Dr Gary Fitt and Dr Stephen Yeates).

These events would not occur without the hard work of both our Conference Committee and many other volunteers, and the AACS would like to express its gratitude to all who helped make the 2025 conference a success.

Into it’s third and final day, the conference has ready been a great success, with over 180 delegates and over 80 speakers on a wide range of topics.

Award winners will be announced at the Conference dinner.

A huge congratulations to two AACS members who won their respective categories at the Australian Cotton Conference Awards Dinner on 8 August:

Dr Lisa Bird (NSW DPI) was awarded the Cotton Seed Distributors Researcher of the Year.
Lisa plays an essential role in the cotton industry’s surveillance for insecticide resistance, testing aphids, helicoverpa, mirids, mites, and thrips, with her results incorporated into cotton’s Insecticide Resistance Management Strategy (IRMS) each year.

Sharna Holman (DAF Queensland) was awarded the CRDC Chris Lehmann Young Cotton Achiever of the Year.
Sharna is the Biosecurity Tech Lead for CottonInfo, who is also currently completing a CRDC-supported PhD focusing on the pest status of cluster caterpillar in northern Australia.

See the Cotton Australia media release for official photographs.

With a hiatus in our research conference program, AACS has encouraged researchers to present their amazing work at lunchtime seminar sessions.

The presentations are recorded and made available on our Seminar Series page.