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Farm-level adaptation options: Wimmera-Mallee

Communicating Climate Change - Module 16

As Australia’s producers continue to be challenged by increased climate variability and climate change, seeking out region-specific adaptation options is important to ensure regional productivity. Understanding which adaptation options to pursue in response to climate change remains a challenge, due to uncertainty about the full extent of future climate change, the response of different crops, and future commodity prices and input costs. Combining expert farmer knowledge with both crop (more)...

Managing risk in a changing climate: making tactical decisions in the Wimmera-Mallee

Communicating Climate Change - Module 16

Farming under increased climate variability and climate change continues to challenge Australia’s farmers. While tactical decisions are often presented in a framework of best management practice, this framework often only looks at the current situation. The tactical decisions that farmers face are influenced by both the immediacy of the current situation, the lessons learnt from previous decisions, and factors such as family, debt, health and issues outside the best management (more)...

Wheat and sheep production in a changing climate: western Victoria

Communicating Climate Change - Module 4

Australia’s wheat-sheep production zone covers 35 million hectares in southern and eastern Australia. Its 15 700 wool-producing farms contain 55% of the nation’s sheep. Annual rainfall in the zone is 300–600 mm. Climate change threatens the productivity of Australia’s wheat and sheep industries. It reduces the value of historical climate knowledge and increases uncertainty about the bounds of future climates, making farming decisions more complex. While (more)...