LETTER: Cotton growers stitch up a good year

In response to Murray-Darling ­Basin Authority chief executive Phillip Glyde’s comments, while we all acknowledge there is a drought with low flows into rivers that feed the Darling, where is his acknow­ledgement that upstream cotton has had a major impact on flows?An article published in The Sydney Morning Herald stated: “Australian cotton exports are tipped […]

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