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 - 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
Published - 8 April 2021 By Using tension based soil moisture monitoring tools to schedule irrigation Tension measuring devices provide information about water availability in the soil. Soil tension can be used by irrigators to better plan when to irrigate in … Read More irrigation scheduling, irrigation technology, soil moisture monitoring Irrigation Scheduling, Irrigation Systems, Water Management
Published - 25 May 2020 By Natalie Mason Monitoring health and crop water requirements using remote sensing Human eyes can see colour in the visible spectrum of light, such as the colours of the rainbow (blue, green and red visible light bands). … Read More crop health, irrigation, irrigation scheduling, irrigation technology, NDRE, NDVI, remote sensing Home, Irrigation Scheduling, Resources
Published - 11 May 2020 By Natalie Mason Introduction to remote sensing for crop health Remote sensing refers to a suite of technologies that use sensors to obtain information about an object without making contact with it. The sensors used … Read More irrigation scheduling, irrigation technology, NDVI, remote sensing, smarter irrigation Home, Irrigation Scheduling, Resources
Published - 6 April 2020 By Natalie Mason Plant based sensors for irrigation scheduling Technology used in irrigation scheduling is becoming more diverse and more sophisticated. Scheduling information can be gathered from variety of sources including weather stations, soil … Read More Agriculture Victoria, drip irrigation, horticulture, irrigation scheduling, irrigation technology, mallee irrigation, smarter irrigation Home, Irrigation Scheduling, Resources
Published - 31 March 2020 By Rob O'Connor Tools for better irrigation scheduling 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 … Read More Agriculture Victoria, evapotranspiration, irrigation scheduling, irrigation technology, smarter irrigation, SMM, soil moisture monitoring Home, Irrigation Scheduling, Resources
Published - 4 February 2020 By Natalie Mason Anthony Cirillo’s Farming Story: Mallee Irrigation Efficiency Incentives Program Table grape grower Anthony Cirillo said help to install “cutting edge technology” had resulted in bigger crops and better-quality fruit using “the same, if not … Read More Agriculture Victoria, drip irrigation, horticulture, incentives, irrigation decisions, irrigation scheduling, Mallee CMA, mallee irrigation, Sunraysia Farm Planning, Home, Irrigation Scheduling, Irrigation Systems, Resources, Water Management
Published - 29 November 2018 By Rob O'Connor What to know about Evapotranspiration and how to use it to schedule irrigations 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 … Read More Agriculture Victoria, ETo, evapotranspiration, irrigation scheduling, smarter irrigation Home, Irrigation Scheduling, Resources
Published - 27 September 2018 By Alexis Killoran Calculating Readily Available Water at the Macalister Irrigation Farm A soil pit was recently dug at the Macalister Demonstration Farm (MDF) to better understand the Readily Available Water (RAW) content of the farm. RAW … Read More Agriculture Victoria, irrigation scheduling, Macalister Irrigation District, MID, soil Home, Irrigation Scheduling, Resources
Published - 2 July 2018 By Rob O'Connor Using soil moisture information to schedule irrigations As part of the Accelerating Change project in Northern Victoria, various soil moisture monitoring (SMM) devices were used over the last 3 years under surface … Read More accelerating change, Agriculture Victoria, irrigation scheduling, irrigation technology, SMM, soil moisture monitoring Home, Irrigation Scheduling, Resources
