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

The economics of irrigated dual-purpose winter crops shows stellar returns CW NSW

The recent upward trend in livestock prices and the option of early grazing, dual purpose species can be highly profitable ...

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Case Study

Dual-purpose irrigated canola ticks all the boxes at Forbes, NSW

The Francis family have a mixed farming business west of Forbes in the Lachlan Valley, NSW growing cereals, pulses, canola, a...

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Soil moisture deficits & plant available soil water

Understanding soil moisture and the access plants have to that moisture is important to support irrigation decision making. I...

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Grains Industry

Content relating to the Australian grains industry

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Irrigation Automation

Automation of Irrigation has the potential to provide real gains for producers. The gains will be mostly with regard time and...

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Local Research Trial Field Days

Growers and agronomists talk about the value they get from being able to attend local research trial sites. An important pa...

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Double Cropping in a Rice System

Alex Schultz, Russel Ford and Paul Bramley talk about the benefits of double cropping in rice systems. Double cropping is an ...

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Malcolm Gillies and Joseph Foley from USQ talk about SISCO at the GVIA SIP2 Field day

The GVIA Field day in February provided an opportunity for producers and consultants to hear about several of the SIP2 projec...

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Case Study

Irrigation water in dry years: sell, buy or apply? A supplementary irrigated wheat scenario, Central West, NSW.

What is more profitable, sell, buy or apply water in dry years when crops have some bulk but lack the moisture to attain high...

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Case Study

Evaporation mitigating solutions for Australian cotton water storages

The greatest water losses on-farm are evaporation losses from on-farm storages. Research being conducted by University of Mel...

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Case Study

Economic costs and benefits of winter cropping irrigation scenarios in Northern Victoria

Using Irrigated Cropping Council data, the economics of irrigation and winter crop species were assessed for crop yield and p...

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Video

GVIA Field Day 2021 EnviroNode IoT tools for irrigation

At the GVIA SIP2 field day Ric Otton and Michelle Quaglia from EnviroNode IoT talk about the opportunities to improve product...

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GVIA SIP2 Field day 2021

In February 2021 the GVIA hosted their annual field day which brought together irrigators and researchers from Sugar, Rice, G...

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Case Study

Irrigation scheduling technologies

One of the key barriers to adoption of irrigation scheduling technologies is the diversity of tools available. Each irrigatio...

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Podcast

Minimising evaporation from water storages

Research into reducing water evaporation from storages has been of interest for many decades with large scale field trials as...

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Webinar

IAL/ICID Webinar Addressing the global water challenge through autonomous irrigation

In October 2020 members of the SIP2 team participated in a webinar hosted by IAL and ICID. The seminar provided a technical o...

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