The Cotton Industry Storages Project is seeking consultants to undertake storage seepage and evaporation evaluations across the cotton industry. This is a great opportunity for consultants to get into the delivery of storage evaluations as a commercial service - but applications are due soon!
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.
The value of storage surveys - Could you live with a 22% error?
Everyone knows that you often make decisions that rely on knowing how much water your storage can hold. So what if your storage has more or less water than you think?
Knowledge Management in Irrigated Cotton and Grains - Stage II Report
The NSWDPI Knowledge Management in Cotton and Grains Irrigation project was undertaken in two stages: The first stage of the project identified the major components of the irrigation information and knowledge transfer and access system that existed in the Cotton and Northern Grains Industries. This allowed targeting of key areas for improvement or enhancement of the whole irrigation knowledge system. The second stage attempted to develop and implement components of an improved and enhanced knowledge system and to determine their effectiveness. This second stage has identified which strategies might be most effective at successfully introducing these components as well as a number of barriers.
Have you ever looked at a pump chart and tried to understand what it's all about? At first glance they appear to be a confused mess of meaningless lines that pump people insist tells all you need to know about your pump!
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