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Irrigation in Australia. Facts and figures

Facts and figures about irrigation in Australia.

Coordinating Deep Drainage Research in the Northern Darling Basin - Final Report

A key issue identified by the research community working with the cotton industry was the lack of understanding and acceptance of the concept of deep drainage. Deep drainage is defined as the part of the water (applied to the surface and as rainfall or irrigation) that moves past the rootzone. In general the existing paradigm was “cotton soils don’t leak”. However, the research community related to the Australian Cotton CRC (ACCRC) (more)...

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Signposts for Australian agriculture: the Australian dairy industry

This is a Signposts factsheet

This is an abreviated version of the Signposts report of the same title.

Signposts for Australian agriculture (Signposts) is a partnership between industry, government and research organisations. It provides access to economic, social and environmental

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Signposts for Australian agriculture: the Australian grains industry

Signposts for Australian agriculture (Signposts) is a partnership between industry, government and research organisations. It provides access to economic, social and environmental data specific to an industry in order to inform policy development, strategic decision making and research priorities. Agriculture is under pressure to demonstrate its performance credentials - in particular its environmental credentials, and to inform the community about its management practices. The agriculture (more)...

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Signposts for Australian agriculture: the Australian wine industry

Signposts for Australian agriculture (Signposts) is a partnership between industry, government and research organisations. It provides access to economic, social and environmental data specific to an industry in order to inform policy development, strateg

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Signposts for Australian agriculture: the Australian horticulture industry

Signposts for Australian agriculture (Signposts) is a partnership between industry, government and research organisations. It provides access to economic, social and environmental data specific to an industry in order to inform policy development, strateg

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Signposts for Australian agriculture

The Australian beef industry

Agriculture is under pressure to demonstrate its performance credentials - in particular its environmental credentials, and to inform the community about its management practices. The agricultural sector recognises that failure to respond to this pressure

Signposts for Australian Agriculture Stage 2a

Refinement of preliminary framework and industry profiles to include pathways to ESD

This report describes refinements to the design of the framework in response to the structured consultations, BRS work with the grains industry, and the recommendations of the ABARE review and investigates three additional features: Opportunities and threats that could affect an industry’s contributions to ecologically sustainable development ( (more)...

Signposts for Australian Agriculture Stage 3a

Completion of three industry profiles

This stage of Signposts (Stage 3a) focuses on the creation of industry profiles of the horticulture, beef and dairy industries and aims to demonstrate the potential of Signposts as a provider of quick and reliable information for government and industry policy makers. This report documents the process behind the development of those profiles including consultation and reviews by the Australian National University and Australian Bureau of Statistics. Stage 3a builds upon the Grains Industry (more)...