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Oxygation study aims to lift productivity

>Making modern irrigation systems even more productive is one of the aims of a scholarship funded by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation.

Megan Sebben, Jim Cox, Guy Roth

Study seeks a clearer picture of soil salts

A clearer picture of the changing patterns of salt distribution in irrigated soils is being sought through an undergraduate study funded by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation.

Irrigation Essentials Launch

Helping irrigators boost productivity

 Efficient and productive irrigation is crucial for Australia.

This was emphasised today by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Burke when visiting the Keytah property at Moree, NSW, where he inspected farmer-led irrigation demonstration sites and launched Irrigation Essentials, a publication summarising irrigation research as well as challenges and opportunities.

Rob Houghton in a dryland barley crop

Rainfed crops hold the ground as irrigation dries up

by Kellie Penfold, GRDC

For farmers in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA), a plentiful water supply has for decades guaranteed harvests and allowed them to grow high-value rice crops.

But in recent years water allocations have dried up, mirroring the climate.

Peter Draper and Janelle McGufficke

Less irrigation raises question of environmental effects

Environmental assessment normally is associated with expansion but, as irrigators in the Riverina have found, the effects of less water are also of interest.

Funding was made available through the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation last year as part of a three year research program to quantify the effects of changing irrigation strategies on biodiversity in the region.