Insights from the Agriculture Energy Investment Plan – Webinar recording
The Agriculture Energy Investment Plan has supported agricultural businesses to reduce energy costs, improve energy efficiency and explore alternative energy options through energy assessments, grants, demonstrations, research and extension. Agriculture ...
Analysis shows energy advances by Victorian farmers
Agriculture Victoria has analysed data from 680 on-farm energy assessments and 320 grants to create a unique summary of Victoria’s on-farm energy use and improvements. This is a very large ...
Final results are in for NSW DPI’s energy efficiency farm pilot program
As part of the NSW Climate Change Research Strategy, NSW Department of Primary Industries implemented 7 energy pilot projects across 8 sites to demonstrate innovative technologies and practices to improve ...
Solar energy savings at Wilandra farm – Clydebank
Wilandra farm has been on a journey to reduce irrigation energy costs and maximise the utilisation of PV solar energy generated. The farm’s energy bills for irrigation were about $100,000 ...
Doolan’s Energy Smart Dairy Farm with Heat Pump Technology
Peter Doolan is a third-generation dairy farmer at Doolan Farms. Peter share farms with his brother Sam, their wives and his parents in Ecklin South, southwest Victoria milking 600 cows ...
Saving Energy on Dairy Farms
Dairy Australia have updated their energy resources to assist dairy farmers to reduce their energy use and costs. Reducing energy use on farm is one the easiest and quickest ways ...
Commercial feasibility of gasification and pyrolysis on-farm – Webinar recording
Agricultural and woody biomass residues are generated across rural and regional Victoria which can be converted into renewable power and thermal energy, also producing biochar and wood vinegar. Agriculture Victoria ...
Elevate your farm’s potential as Advanced Thermal Treatment transforms agricultural residues into valuable resources
Agriculture Victoria has produced an Advanced Thermal Treatment for Agricultural Residues (ATTAR) financial assessment tool and Advanced Thermal Treatment of Agricultural Residues report, a comprehensive report that outlines the commercial ...
The renewable fuel future
Understanding what may fuel the future is a focus of the new NSW DPI project: Beyond Fossil Diesel. The pressure to reduce emissions is growing as more targets are being ...
Sustainability with solar
As their Central Victorian free-range pig business grew, farmers Jason and Belinda Hagan found opportunities for greater farm efficiency, cost savings and equally important, producing new quality pork products. The ...
Solar and heat pumps deliver
Like most dairies, heating water along with cooling milk were the biggest electricity uses at the Johnson’s dairy. For the Johnsons, involvement with the Victorian Government’s Agriculture Energy Investment Plan ...
Cool benefits from milk chilling
McCarthy Dairy milk around 600 cows operating a spring and autumn calving system. Their annual milk production has grown in recent years from 3.5 million litres to around 4.5 million ...
