Representatives
Research Committees
Research Responsibilities
The
primary role of ACGRA and its members (via their representatives) is to
provide advice to the CRDC on research issues from the perspective of
cotton growers. This is achieved by members providing their perspective
on the research funding submissions received by CRDC each year. ACGRA
representatives are asked to comment on whether the proposed research is
relevant to their needs. ACGRA members are expected to canvas the views
of their representative organisation, and bring to the meeting any
relevant attitudes and opinions expressed by their member organisation.
As more research submissions are made to CRDC than can reasonably be expected to have ACGRA representatives consider properly, representatives are asked to nominate which specific areas of research they are interested in, and they are allocated to the appropriate research committee that deals with that area of research. This research committee then considers the research and/or adoption applications in detail, and report their views to the Association as a whole at the annual research review meeting.
ACGRA Research Committee membership as at September 3rd 2007
| Research Committee | Members |
| People & Knowledge | Robert Collins
(Chair) Mike Beeston, Bob Dall'Alba, Mike McCosker, Matt Mitchell, Lyndon Mulligan, Ben Stephens, Bill Tyrwhitt and David Kelly |
| Integrated Natural Resource Management | TBA
(Chair) Geoff Brownlie, John Fergusson, Andrew Greste, Hamish McIntyre, Paul McVeigh, Tony Thompson and John Watson |
| Crop Protection | Bill Tyrwhitt
(Chair) John Cameron, Damien Erbacher, David Kelly, Matt Mitchell, Andrew Parkes, Cleave Rogan, Tony Taylor and Neville Walton |
| Farming Systems | Matt Mitchell (Chair) Hugh Ball, Andrew Blair, Geoff Brownlie, John Cameron, John Hamparsum, Rob Lowe, Tim Richards, Ben Stephens, Tony Taylor, Matthew Ward and John Watson |
| Plant Breeding & Biotechnology | Lyndon Mulligan
(Chair) Mitchell Abbo, Damien Erbacher, Andrew Greste, Rob Lowe, Paul McVeigh, Andrew Parkes, Joe Robinson, Neville Walton and Matthew Ward |
| Value Chain | Bob Dall'Alba
(Chair) Mitch Abbo, Mike Beeston, Damien Erbacher, John Hamparsum, Hamish Millar, Greg Morris, Lyndon Mulligan, Tim Richards and Tony Thompson |