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Policy, Institutional and Managerial Considerations in Managing Weeds with a Commercial Value

Weeds cost the Australian economy millions of dollars each year in lost production, eradication, containment and management, however there has been very little effort placed on assessing or valuing the ecological impact of these weeds.

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)...

Changing Irrigation Systems and Management in the Harvey Irrigation Area

Milestone Report - End of Stage 1 - February 2004

The project is examining issues of water use efficiency (WUE) in the South West Irrigation Area (hereafter called the Harvey Irrigation Area). A significant WUE issue is whether water savings, improved pasture yields and farm productivity can be achieved through sprinkler (centre pivot) irrigation of dairy pasture in comparison with traditional surface bay irrigation (often called flood irrigation). This project is a case study conducted on (more)...

Irrigation Insights 1 - Information Package on Soil Water Monitoring

This Irrigation Insights information package brings together information on current equipment and techniques for measuring and monitoring soil water status, extending to their use as controllers in automatic irrigation systems. We have limited the equipment described here to those products with agents and backup within Australia. The hub of the publication is a collection of tables summarising the main product features. This enables you to compare product features. As well as technical data, there is (more)...

Using Wetting Front Detectors in Furrow Irrigation

The Wetting Front Detector (WFD) is a new tool to help measure how deeply water has penetrated into the soil after an irrigation event. The WFD also captures and stores a soil water sample, which can be analysed for its salt or nutrient content. The first commercial version of the Wetting Front Detector (WFD), called the FullStop, was released in 2004. The FullStop WFD is comprised of a (more)...