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that we include in each episode to reach more people. So in this episode, I'm excited to welcome

Stephen Hegarty from Vanderfield back to the show to continue our conversation on agriculture

in Australia. So to refresh in the last episode, we really just introduced agriculture in Australia,

what crops are grown there and some of the basic

technologies that people are using to improve agriculture and efficiency there.

In this episode, I think we're going to start breaking things down by the different crops

that are grown in Australia.

And in this episode, I think we're primarily going to focus on cotton and small grains.

If you could go ahead and give us some background

on cotton and the industry in Australia, I think that would be great. Yeah, look, if I guess we started

with cotton, cotton in Australia is predominantly flood to furrow surface irrigated, some dryland crop as well.

And there are changes coming in our next season with Volgaard 3. with Bulgarde 3 we'll have a much wider planting window to use that technology and we won't have the requirement to pupae bust at the end of the season.

So I think what's going to happen, we're going to see a pretty big explosion in dryland cotton areas over here because someone that's in a typical

minimum zero till control traffic type of winter cereal cropping system will be able to slot in

dry land bulkard cotton without the requirement to go on do a primary tillage operation at the end of the season

that head and hand with the fact that we now have this,

you know, much wider planting window.

So typically what's happened with Bulgarde 2, Bolgaard and Ingar before that was for

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