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Quantifying costs and benefits of buffel grass

Full Report

Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) is an introduced pasture grass of significant commercial value but which also presents a major threat to conservation values in the rangelands. This report integrates the outcomes of regional workshops with institutional…

Building Effective Climate Risk Management in the WA Grainbelt

Project workshops and extension work provided a good precursor for many producers attending the Masters of Climate workshops. Strong involvement of agribusiness in delivering project to farmers gave a well-integrated perspective of the role of climate risk management in farm enterprises. Next Steps: Project was aimed at fostering increased State agency investment in CRM and extension. So far there has not yet been a shift in resourcing in (more)...

Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management - Summary Report

This report summarise the outputs and key lessons from National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) funded project UMO45 Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management, which was designed to achieve an improved level of adoption of ecological risk assessment and risk management methods in the Australian irrigation industry and in regulatory agencies. Adoption of risk-based approaches is considered to be vital if the industry is to achieve its (more)...

State / territory jurisdictional workshops

Report on outcomes

The State/Territory workshops were successful in addressing the aims of the National Invasive Animals Project. The main outcomes of the State workshops were: Agreement by relevant State and Territory Agencies to determine what information is available to report under the recommended Indicators for Vertebrate Pests; Agreement by the relevant State and Territory Agencies to establish what is required internally for reporting of information to address the National Indicators (more)...

Estuarine, coastal and marine issues and indicators workshop report

The workshop builds on work that has been taking place in each State & NT over the past six to twelve months. Documentation of this work is available on the Audit website. The scope of the workshop was limited to the key objectives of the NM&EF which are to help assess: the health of the nation’s land, water, vegetation and biological (more)...

Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Fact Sheet

This fact sheet outlines the aims, processes and outputs of the project. It illustrates how Irrigation Futures is informing key agencies as they plan for future uncertainty in this important industry and region.

NPIRD UPDATE - No.1 November 2001

The National Program for Irrigation R&D is the only national body to coordinate irrigation research activity in Australia. At present it is in its third 3-year funding phase, which is due to finish in June 2002. To get feedback from the irrigation industry about what shape irrigation research and development should take in the future and what the important issues will be, the program is running six workshops around Australia in October and November. Locations of these (more)...

Know the Flow: Development of improved flow measurement in irrigation water supply

Final Report

The “Know The Flow” project was initiated in 1997 to address issues relating to the accurate measurement of the delivery of irrigation water to farms. The current most common method, the Dethridge Wheel, was perceived to have problems in some applications. The project was conceived to research solutions to these problems.

National workshop to initiate establishment of national standards for irrigated crop water balance and ETc field methodologies

Workshop summary report

A national workshop was convened by National Program for Irrigation Research and Development (NPIRD) to establish the need for national standards for irrigated crop water balance and crop evapotranspiration (ETc1) field methodologies. The workshop was attended by representatives of relevant state agencies and federal organisations. Participants all had a sound understanding of the use of ET in their organization at a technical level and were also able (more)...