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Healthy Soils: Soil is a National Asset - Corporate Brochure

The Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms Programme is a wide-ranging, $5 million programme that covers a variety of agricultural sectors across almost all the states of Australia. The current range of agricultural industries involved in the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms Programme includes: • Grain and crops • Cotton • Sheep and wool • Sugar • Vegetables • Organics The scale of the projects supported (more)...

Integrating NRM Implications into a Production-Based Seasonal Climate Risk Management System

Project objectives were to integrate prediction of NRM implications of crop management decisions into the Yield Prophet system. The project incorporated NRM elements around the themes of water impacts and stubble management into Yield Prophet allowing more integrated farm reporting. Next Steps: Principle Investigator presented at July PMC meeting on future directions for decision support tools (more)...

Understanding frost risk in a variable and changing climate

Project objective is to improve understanding the changing nature of frost risk at both seasonal and decadal scales for the southern regions of Australia and implications for resident wine and grain industries.

Seasonal forecasting for Eastern Australia scoping study

Focusing on sub-tropical eastern Australia including the northern grains belt, southern cane industry, the southern Qld and northern NSW dairy industry, subtropical grazing, most of Australia’s cotton industry and a range of subtropical horticultural crops, this project will determine key Climate Science R&D necessary to improve existing forecast skill. Applications and tools that are likely to be of high benefit to agriculture will be proposed.

Integration of climate-related decision support system tools to improve their relevance

The project objective is to undertake a critical evaluation of climate risk management tools such as Yield Prophet, PYCal, WhopperCropper, the Mallee calculator and CropMate to provide a more integrated package to grain growers and suggest the key investment opportunities for further improvements in these Grains Tools.

Accelerating adoption of integrated soil management practices in irrigated cotton and grain

Most cotton farms are situated on riparian flood plains and best management practice (BMP) of soils is imperative to the sustainability of these landscapes. One of the best ways to improve water management and to optimise nutrition inputs to reduce the impact of rising fertiliser costs to improve soil health and management. A 2005 study of Australia’s cotton industry examined farmers’ current knowledge and understanding of soil health. It (more)...

Grain marketing considerations under climate change scenarios

Communicating Climate Change - Module 17

Climate change may have major impacts on grain marketing in Australia, especially for producers.

Producers need to consider the viability of production, the flexibility of their planting window, and the costs of holding harvested crops on farm.

Domestic and international grain buyers will need responsive and flexible supply chains.

Knowledge management in irrigated cotton and grains - stage II

Report of findings

This report summarises the major findings which have arisen from the project Knowledge Management in Cotton and Grains Irrigation. This report should be considered in conjunction with the detailed evaluation report prepared by Coutts JR consultants. The lessons learned are detailed and recommendations provided where appropriate. They are discussed under the following headings: Knowledge Management concepts and (more)...

Knowledge Management in Cotton and Grain Irrigation

Final Report - May, 2004

The Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre through this knowledge management project aimed to develop a better understanding of the knowledge pathways being used by irrigated cotton and grain growers, consultants and support agencies.

The current study focused on how cotton and grain irrigators and their consultants access information about irrigation and generate knowledge to make better irrigation decisions.

Knowledge Management in Cotton & Grain Irrigation

Knowledge is fundamental to improving the competitiveness, responsiveness and levels of innovation that we see in industries. This research project aimed to determine how information and knowledge about water management and water use efficiency is being used and managed in irrigated cotton and grains and the key factors influencing decision making. To do this, 90 interviews of growers of cotton and grains, consultants, extension workers, government researcher officers, and irrigation equipment suppliers (more)...