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1 May 2009
Saving irrigation water, the environment and money
Agronomists were the target audience as they are industry's preferred irrigation knowledge brokers. Other industry projects were also engaging cotton consultants through irrigation knowledge broker mentoring and training activities and partnerships were developed between these projects to avoid duplication. Sarah Hood pictured was the project leader. Dedicated resources including monetary co-investment were made available to support decision making, planning, knowledge and skill development. Specialist extension staff and researchers provided critical information, training and support, environmental stakeholders assessed environmental outcomes and economists calculated the estimated return on investment of the proposed management options.
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| 27 February 2009 |
23 January 2009 |
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Water management from an irrigator’s perspective
Nathaniel Phillis, contract irrigator for Sundown Pastoral Company, spoke at the 2008 Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association ‘Innovations in Irrigation’ field day discussing water management, irrigation performance and water use efficiency from his perspective.
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Deep drainage myth-busters
For many years it was believed that deep drainage from furrow irrigation was not an issue on cracking clays predominantly used to grow cotton in Australia. The Cotton CRC water team sought the response of some leading deep drainage researchers on these deep drainage "myths".
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| 14 November 2008 |
28 October 2008 |
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Storage Project - Tender for Consultants
Please Note that this tender has now closed. However, there will be a call for expressions of interest from landholders who would like their storages evaluated as part of this project in mid 2009. Stay tuned!
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How to evaluate the performance of centre pivot and lateral move systems
Quite a number of growers have opted to change to centre pivot or lateral move systems on the basis that they are more efficient. Sometimes, however this is not necessarily true, even for newly installed machines. From several simple field tests and a few calculations, you can check the uniformity, application depth, system capacity, speed and emitter performance of your overhead system.
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WATERpak is a comprehensive guide for irrigation management in cotton and grains crops
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Calculate water use indices for your farm using this online benchmarking tool.
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OVERsched is an online tool to assist with the management of Overhead (Centre Pivot and Lateral Move) Irrigation Systems.
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The Evaporation Ready Reckoner is useful for analysing the economics of various evaporation mitigation strategies.
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