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 of Meteorology for any location in Victoria. The tool is updated daily showing the past 7 days, next 7 days and provides irrigation scheduling information [...]
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 the last week The predicted weekly pasture water use: MID 15 mm, Bairnsdale is 14 mm, Orbost 13 mm and Yarram 14 mm [...]
In this recent webinar, Rob O'Connor from Agriculture Victoria discusses irrigation scheduling tools to achieve top yields and water use efficiency. Rob provides information on Evapotranspiration (ET) tools and services available to irrigators and shares results and learnings from using soil moisture monitoring equipment for more informed irrigation decision making. [...]
Evapotranspiration provides a relatively objective and reliable estimate of the water requirements of actively growing plants in a farm situation. Evapotranspiration information can be used by irrigators to more accurately schedule irrigations to help achieve top yields and improve water productivity. What is Evapotranspiration? Evapotranspiration is an estimate of the [...]
