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

Scheduling Irrigations with Limited Water – Australian Cotton Conference

Chris Nunn from CSIRO talks about scheduling irrigations with limited water using canopy temperature sensors.

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Webinar

Smart Sensing and Automation – A Cruise Control System for Irrigation

John Hornbuckle from Deakin University presenting at the Australian Cotton Conference on Smart Sensing of automation

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Case Study

Input efficiencies and quality of life with automated furrow irrigation for sugarcane. A grower’s experience.

In this case study Russell Jordon discusses the economic and lifestyle benefits of adopting automated furrow irrigation.

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Scheduling Irrigation

Discover information and content around scheduling technologies and innovations

Video

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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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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Video

Dairy farmer Michael Twomey – irrigating smarter

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

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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

St George Siphon-less tailwater backup podcast

SIP2 are working with CottonInfo, University of Southern Qld, GVIA, Glenn Lyon, Padman Stops and St George Cotton Growers Cra...

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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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