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

Smart sensing and automation in bankless irrigation – rice. A grower’s experience.

Smart sensor technology feeds information from field sensors to irrigation outlets to control the timing and volume of water ...

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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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C21 SunRice Grower of the year working with SIP2 researchers

In August 2021 Rice Extension announced Darrell Fiddler, farm manager at De Bortoli Wines near Griffith at the C21 SunRice Gr...

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Rice Industry

Content relating to the Australian rice industry

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Smart Automation in Rice

Smart automation in rice provides practical and financial benefit for producers. John Hornbuckle from Deakin University and G...

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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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Fact Sheet

Automated irrigation and successful aerobic rice production

Reducing or eliminating the period of permanent flooding of a rice crop by flush irrigating can substantially reduce rice wat...

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Video

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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Case Study

Smart Irrigation control in rice growing systems – Economic case study

This case study analyses the application of smart sensing and automation in an example bankless channel rice irrigation syste...

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Case Study

Growing rice with less water and labour

With the touch of a button, De Bortoli Wines Farm Operations Manager Darrell Fiddler was able to irrigate part of his rice ...

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GVIA SIP2 Field Day 2021 Rodrigo File Maia talks about Keytah Smart Sensing project

Keytah is one of the sites where the Deakin University team are conducting their SIP2 Smart Sensing research. Rodrigo File Ma...

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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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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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