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Growing Capacity in Seasonal Climate Risk Management in South-East Australia

Project focused on extension and adoption of climate risk management technologies. Recent survey results suggest the project’s online magazine The Break is highly regarded by subscribers and has had a positive impact on grower knowledge of climate and risk management issues. Project spearheaded an awakening within the Vic Govt of the need for CRM extension services for agribusiness and farmers. Has raised awareness amongst farmers and agribusiness of the (more)...

Farmers Applying Seasonal Climate Forecasting for Profitable Sustainable Resource Use

Next Steps: SEACI 1 has been extended for six months to June 09. Scoping is underway for SEACI 2 which will continue the focus on climate change, forecasting skill and the prediction of runoff and soil moisture.

Climag Magazine 16

R&D meets farmers' needs in a changing climate

With climate change predictions pointing to Australia’s climate becoming even more variable, farmers are looking for more accurate seasonal forecasts that can be interpreted to help them better make decisions about planting, sowing, harvesting and stockin

Implications of water reforms for the national economy

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS in the 1880s by individual farmers along inland rivers and, in particular, the efforts of the Chaffey brothers at Renmark and Mildura in 1887, the irrigation industries in Australia have expanded to where they now use three quarters of all water used, have a combined area of about 2.6 million hectares under irrigation and produce agricultural outputs worth over $9 billion. Irrigation industries are an (more)...

Implications of water reforms for the national economy

final report

THIS REPORT HAS been prepared by the CIE as part of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation. The financial assistance provided by the Program through Land and Water Australia is gratefully acknowledged. Many people have contributed to this study. Murray Chapman, Program Coordinator for the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation deserves praise for his enthusiastic support and assistance (more)...

Socio-economic research and development for irrigation communities

The case for maintenance of a healthy environment that supports sustainable economic activity and offers economic, social and environmental benefits, has been well argued. All stakeholders, whether farmers, governments, non-government organisations or industry in all its forms, have a crucial role in this process, as decisions and actions of stakeholders at all levels greatly affect outcomes from use of water and other natural resources. In many catchments, new approaches to the use (more)...

Polyacrylamides in Irrigated Agriculture

Polyacrylamide (PAM) has been sold in the United States since 1995 for reducing irrigation-induced erosion and enhancing infiltration. PAM’s soil stabilizing and flocculating properties have also substantially improved runoff water quality by reducing sediments, N, ortho and total P, COD, pesticides, weed seeds, and microorganisms in runoff. The first series of practical field tests of (more)...

Improving Productivity and Sustainability in Irrigation

Case Studies of Success

Projects featured in this booklet highlight the diversity of the research commissioned by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation and the practical outcomes they offer for irrigation sustainability and productivity.

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