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The Healthy Soils Symposium - Can Australian Soils Sustain our Agricultural Systems?

Investors in the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms programme are proud to convene a Symposium on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The event poses a challenging question and invites farmers, scientists, agronomists and economists to find answers. Can Australian soils sustain our agricultural systems? At this event we are confident that delegates will go home with valuable new perspectives and a better capacity to formulate their own answers. We are particularly proud of (more)...

Looking to the farm business

Benchmarking the distribution efficiency of an irrigation supply system

Project objectives To benchmark the distribution efficiency (DE) of the various components of a small, open channel gravity irrigation system and irrigation return flows from farms to the surface drainage system. To develop strategies to overcome water losses in the distribution system, including the implementation of smart systems for improved channel operations, system planning and services to improve the integration of distribution systems (more)...

Estimating water use efficiency for a whole catchment

Catchment managers have a responsibility to ensure equitable use of water, balancing water requirements from the upper catchment all the way downstream to the end of the valley. On farms, effi cient use of water is a goal which everybody shares to avoid plant stress from drought or waterlogging and to avoid paying for too much water.

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

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.