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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Webinar

Grower-led Optimisation and Automation presentation Australian Cotton Conference

Lou Gall from the GVIA talks about the Grower-led commercial research associated with SIP2.

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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

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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Overhead irrigation

Discover information and content around overhead irrigation technologies and innovations

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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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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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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Video

Benefits of variable rate irrigation for dairy pastures

Variable rate irrigation can improve pasture productivity and increase water use efficiency

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Video

Dairy farmer Michael Twomey – irrigating smarter

Tools and techniques to get the most out of your pasture irrigation.

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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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Video

Variable rate irrigation using VARIwise

Alison McCathy talks about 'Variable rate irrigation using VARIwise' new software which integrates a wider range of data into...

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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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Fact Sheet

Gwydir Valley demonstration of the application of the latest digital technologies for precise automated irrigation

This project will provide growers with commercially relevant information about how to best utilise irrigation monitoring tool...

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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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