Case Study

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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Case Study

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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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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Video

IrriPasture: A free irrigation scheduling tool for dairy farmers

IrriPasture: An easy to use, free platform that uses local weather data to enhance water budgets and irrigation scheduling de...

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Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture

Content researched in whole or in part by the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture

Video

Tasmania Institute of Agriculture’s Dr James Hills on irrigation basics

Getting the irrigation basics right for dairy pasture systems.

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Podcast

Irrigation Automation with Dr Alison McCarthy

Dr Alison McCarthy from University Southern Qld talks about her projects in Dairy and Cotton where she has developed the VARI...

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Webinar

Using Pasture.io on your farm

Using Pasture.io on your farm uses real data to demonstrate how satellite imagery, local weather and paddock data is combined...

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Webinar

Using soil moisture monitoring and data to maintain readily available water (RAW)

Follow the link to see the Dairy Australia webinar on using soil moisture monitoring and data to maintain readily available w...

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Webinar

GRDC Grains Research Update, online – Irrigation (North)

The webinar recording from the GRDC Update Webinar on Optimising limited irrigation water in grain crops. Irrigation systems...

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Video

Dr James Hills on Beyond Water Smart: Advancing Dairy Irrigation System Performance

Dr James Hills from Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture talks about the optimised irrigation sites that are part of the Smarte...

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Fact Sheet

Beyond Water Smart: Advancing Dairy Irrigation System Performance

This project aims to establish optimised dairy irrigation farms with linked satellite farms in 5 regions across Tasmanian to ...

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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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