Published - 19 September 2022 By Nick O'Halloran & John O'Connor Energy assessment tool for centre pivot & travelling irrigation systems Energy assessments of irrigation systems across the Murray Darling Basin have highlighted huge opportunities to improve irrigation energy efficiency. However, many farms still ask: How can … Read More Agriculture Victoria, energy, irrigation design, irrigation efficiency, irrigation energy efficiency, irrigation uniformity, NSW DPI, power Irrigation Systems
Published - 7 December 2023 By Rob O'Connor Weekly Irrigation Requirement$ Summary – Driving Water Productivity in Northern Victoria Thursday 7 December 2023 Weekly Irrigation Requirement$ Summary – Driving Water Productivity Northern Victoria This update provides ‘reference evapotranspiration’ (ETo) information to assist with improved irrigation scheduling for … Read More Irrigation Scheduling
Published - 22 September 2023 By Kathy Long Planning a new irrigation development in the Goulburn Murray Water Region? All new irrigation developments in Victoria must have a licence from the local water authority whether the water is from a dam, natural waterway, channel, … Read More Agriculture Victoria, irrigation development, new irrigation developments, NID Farm Planning
Published - 19 September 2023 By Rob O'Connor & Tim Robinson Interactive ETo irrigation scheduling tool A pilot interactive irrigation scheduling tool is now available on ExtensionAUS for irrigators to use, providing daily evapotranspiration (ETo) and rainfall data from the Bureau … Read More Agriculture Victoria, ETo, evapotranspiration, irrigation decisions, irrigation scheduling, irrigation technology Irrigation Scheduling
Published - 2 August 2023 By Colette Suter Irrigation Webinar 16: New approach to delivery rights in Victoria: Place of take approvals framework The new ‘place of take approvals’ framework will strengthen water delivery rights in declared systems and will come into effect during 2023/24 following planned consultation … Read More Agriculture Victoria, farm planning, water availability, water management Water Management
Published - 31 July 2023 By Colette Suter Irrigation webinar 15: Reading climate drivers for better farm decisions: Using outlooks, forecasts and climate tools This webinar is the second of a two-part subseries focusing on how to read and use climate driver information, outlooks, forecasts, and tools to better … Read More Agriculture Victoria, climate tools, farm planning, forecasts, rainfall, seasonal impacts, water availability, water management, water market Farm Planning
Published - 31 July 2023 By Colette Suter Irrigation Webinar 14: Reading climate drivers for better farm decisions: Reading climate drivers This webinar is one of a two-part subseries focusing on how to read and use climate driver information, outlooks, forecasts, and tools to better manage … Read More Agriculture Victoria, climate drivers, farm planning, rainfall, seasonal impacts, water availability, water management Farm Planning
Published - 21 June 2023 By John Paulet & Rob O'Connor Irrigation webinar series recordings Welcome to the Irrigation Webinar Series recordings page. Below you will find links to each recording as they become available. Webinar 16: New approach to delivery rights … Read More Agriculture Victoria, allocation, GMID, horticulture, irrigation decisions, irrigation webinar series, IVT, mallee irrigation, Plan2Farm, sMDB, water market, water price, water trade Water Management
Published - 30 May 2023 By Sam North Want to improve yields under sub-surface drip? Then reduce deep drainage losses. In Australia, processing tomatoes are grown in the irrigation districts of the central Murray valley using sub-surface drip irrigation. The industry wishes to lift yields … Read More horticulture, irrigation efficiency, leaching fraction, sub-surface drip irrigation, tomato Water Management
Published - 6 April 2023 By Rob O'Connorand Irrigation webinar 13: Understanding water supply and demand in the southern Murray-Darling Basin Representatives from Aither present their recent analysis, updating estimates of water availability and permanent horticultural irrigation water demands in the southern basin. This information supports … Read More Agriculture Victoria, Aither, irrigation decisions, seasonal determination, sMDB, water market, water price, water trade, webinar Water Management
Published - 16 September 2022 By Rob O'Connor Upcoming irrigation water availability Friday 16 September 2022 Upcoming irrigation water availability update This aim of this service is to reduce some of the uncertainty about upcoming irrigation water availability … Read More allocations, basin, evapotranspiration, inflow, irrigation, irrigation scheduling, outlook, storage, water Irrigation Scheduling, Water Management
Published - 18 August 2022 By Billy Marshall Weekly Irrigation Requirements – Macalister Irrigation District (Gippsland) MID ETo Update 11th August to 17th August 2022 ____________________________________________ Flood irrigation interval for the last week was 27 days Spray irrigation amount was 9 mm of irrigation water for … Read More Agriculture Victoria, ETo, evapotranspiration, irrigation scheduling, Macalister Irrigation District, MID, smarter irrigation Irrigation Scheduling
