Rate My Professor Brendan Griffiths

Brendan Griffiths is a lecturer and unit coordinator in the School of Environmental and Rural Sciences at the University of New England (UNE), Armidale, Australia. He coordinates the Applied Cotton Production course (COTT300/COTT500) for Trimester 1 2025, focusing on practical skills for sustainable cotton farming. Griffiths earned a Master's degree in Agriculture in 2002 and a PhD in 2009 from UNE, with his doctoral thesis investigating agronomic constraints in irrigated wheat production in northern New South Wales. His academic tenure at UNE spans 12 years, during which he lectured on the UNE/CRDC Cotton Production Course, equipping students with scientific knowledge and hands-on expertise essential for the cotton industry.

As a field agronomist and soil scientist with over 30 years of experience, Griffiths founded Griffiths Agriculture more than 25 years ago to provide agronomy consulting services to clients in the Macintyre and Gwydir regions of eastern Australia. In 2020, he rebranded it as DATA Ag Technologies Australia, a firm specializing in data analytics, precision agriculture, GIS services, research trials, and spatial soil mapping to support objective agronomic decision-making. His research interests center on crop and soil nutrition interactions, precision agronomy, and the utilization of custom data for improved farming outcomes. Griffiths has contributed to industry resources such as NUTRIpak: A Practical Guide to Cotton Nutrition (2018) and the Australian Cotton Production Manual. He participated in projects including BMP Border Rivers, which extended research on high-yielding wheat in cotton farming systems, and presented on topics like phosphorus responses in dryland cotton and zinc biofortification at conferences such as GRDC Grains Research Updates (2020) and Food Chemistry Technology Conferences (2019). Through his roles in cotton courses and consulting, Griffiths has influenced sustainable practices in the grains and cotton sectors across northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.