Cotton production Is the most intensive of all the broadacre industries in Australia, and the science behind the production of cotton is extensive. The openness and free now of information between and within every sector of the industry is the envy of other industries, and one of our greatest strengths. We are generally regarded as the most advanced cotton producers in the world. We operate in a totally deregulated and, unsubsidised system, and have done so since before I grew cotton. Ironically, the leader of the free enterprise world is now the largest subsidiser of producers in the world, and the last great bastion of communism appears to be toeing the WTO line much more than the USA, at least as far as her subsidies to cotton growers are concerned