This paper summarises the findings of a scoping study into the coordination of natural resource management (NRM) policy in the cotton industry, an industry which leads voluntarist environmentally adaptive farming systems in Australia. Interviews elicited assessments of the degree of NRM policy coordination in the cotton industry, as well as cotton growers' perceptions of current NRM policy, from professionals located within the cotton industry, Natural Resource Management Authorities, State and Local Governments. Interest among interviewees in the potential of co-regulatory arrangements to improve NRM policy coordination was identified. The advantages of co-regulatory arrangements for cotton growers, industry bodies and State Governments are discussed