Fact Sheet

Irrigation Tools and Technologies

Irrigation Tools and technologies is an introductory guide to provide a starting point for irrigators looking to improve or i...

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Case Study

Investing in satellite technology to save irrigation water on a large-scale farm in northern Victoria

Increased precision for irrigation duration and scheduling by using satellite technology and sensors was tested on perennial ...

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Case Study

Investing in upgrading a centre pivot in Bega NSW – Dairy

This case study is based on a site near Bega where a 25ha area of kikuyu/annual ryegrass pasture for dairy production was irr...

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Investing in improved irrigation scheduling to increase pasture growth in northern Tasmania

Improved irrigation scheduling was implemented on a centre pivot that irrigated a 141ha area of pasture for dairy production ...

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Dairy Industry

Content relating to the Australian dairy industry

Case Study

Investing in Variable Rate Irrigation and improved scheduling to increase pasture growth and save energy and water. Tasmania.

Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) was incorporated into a centre pivot that irrigated a 111ha area of pasture for dairy producti...

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Investing in Variable Rate Irrigation to improve pasture growth in WA

Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) was incorporated into a centre pivot that irrigated a 100ha area of pasture for dairy producti...

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Investing in satellite technology to manage irrigation in northern Victoria

Satellite technology combined with sensors provides increased precision for irrigation duration and scheduling. The profitabi...

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Variable Rate Irrigation and VARIwise in centre pivot dairy production

VRI and VARIwise technology allows more accurate irrigation scheduling and has been shown to increase pasture production by u...

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Video

Maximising water efficiency through better irrigation scheduling for the entire farm

Rob O'Connor from Agriculture Victoria talks about the value of using Evapotranspiration as a measure to base irrigation sche...

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Markus Lang’s Agriculture Victoria Trial Farm Update

Markus Lang is one of the trial farms which are part of the SIP2 Agriculture Victoria project. As a result of the project Mar...

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Simple Approach to Managing Water on Farm

Andy McAllister from Agriculture Victoria talks about a simple approach to farm scale irrigation without significant investme...

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Northern Victoria Trial Farm Update with Mark Gardiner

Mark Gardner is one of the dairy farmers in northern Vic. working with the team from Agriculture Victoria in the SIP2 project...

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SIP2 Dairy Farm Update with Nick Ryan

Nick Ryan has been working with the team at Agriculture Victoria and is confident that the system they have developed works. ...

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Scaling irrigation management for whole farm operations with Agriculture Victoria

Amjed Hussain from Agriculture Victoria talks about taking the guess work out of irrigation using simple technology. It is a ...

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Fact Sheet

Beyond Water Smart – IrriPasture Field Days Tasmania

Smarter Irrigation for Profit phase 2, (SIP2) continues to work with five optimised dairy sites across northern Tasmania. Dur...

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Podcast

Bega dairy farmer Will Russell: making every drop count

Bega dairy farmer Will Russell: Irrigation technologies to get more pasture per megalitre.

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This project is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment as part of its Rural R&D for Profit program.

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