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A Landscape Approach to Determine the Ecological Value of Paddock Trees

Summary Report Years 1 and 2

This project aimed to assess the ecological value of scattered paddock trees at a landscape scale, using two approaches. This first was to undertake an intensive mapping program for two study areas in South Australia, equating to an area of 378,000 hectares, and the second to undertake a field study to assess how birds use paddock trees at various levels of tree cover.

Irrigation Insights 6 - Irrigation Decisions: from enterprise planning to the paddock

This publication combines the experiences and insights of irrigation consultants and extension officers with that of social, agronomic and engineering scientists. The resultant publication is targeted at those who advise, support and supply irrigation dependent enterprises with new information, tools and equipment.

Adopting improved use of current water monitoring technology to manage recharge

Rising watertables are a major threat to the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Future sustainability will depend on the ability of each irrigation farmer to choose paddock-crop-irrigation management combinations that control impacts on watertables on their farm. There is a perception that the technology already exists to enable farmers to manage water sustainably, and that the problem is one of adoption rather than the development of new technology. However, (more)...

Finding the common ground

NPSI Factsheet No. 3

No single methodology is used to calculate crop evapotranspiration (ETc) in Australia. This reduces confidence in the various estimates of crop water use, which are an important piece of base information that underpins much water policy. The National Action Plan on Salinity relies on an accurate understanding of ground water recharge rates in both irrigated and dryland farming systems. Estimates of recharge rates are directly affected by estimates of crop water use as both are elements of (more)...