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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.

Critical thresholds (tipping points) and climate change impacts/adaptation in horticulture

Project aims to determine critical temperature thresholds of significance to key horticultural crops, how climate change will impact on these commodities and regions, and suggest adaptation options for specific commodities and regions.

A Review of Dr Bruce Cockroft’s Work for Australian Irrigated Horticulture

Milestone Report 2

The work of Dr Bruce Cockroft has established the importance of managing soil structure in irrigated horticulture in Australia. In particular, he has researched and promoted management strategies designed to maximize the rooting volume of irrigated crops with consequent substantial improvements in yield. These strategies have focused on the creation and maintenance of good soil structure and structural stability and of low resistance to penetration, particularly in soils that are of poor (more)...

Signposts for Australian agriculture: the Australian horticulture industry

This is a Signposts factsheet.

This is an abbreviated version of the Signposts report of the same name. Signposts for Australian agriculture (Signposts) is a partnership between industry, government and research organisations. It provides access to economic, social and environmental data specific to an industry in order to inform policy development, strategic decision making and research priorities. Agriculture is under pressure to demonstrate its performance credentials - in particular its environmental (more)...

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Signposts for Australian agriculture: the Australian horticulture industry

Signposts for Australian agriculture (Signposts) is a partnership between industry, government and research organisations. It provides access to economic, social and environmental data specific to an industry in order to inform policy development, strateg

Use of reclaimed effluent water in Australian horticulture

Stage 1 - A National scoping study 2003

Due to environmental and economic pressures, the volume of reclaimed water being used in Australia is increasing (Dillon 2000, Radcliffe 2003). One of the major potential, and current, uses of this water is for irrigation of horticultural crops. In recognition of this, Land and Water Australia funded the present project—Use of reclaimed water in Australian horticulture—, which is intended to position the horticultural industry to both assess and develop reuse schemes. There are two main stages. (more)...

Salinity impact on Lower Murray horticulture

The project was developed to test the hypothesis: ‘a depressed leaching efficiency (LE) in the Lower Murray irrigation districts raises the root zone salinity and, improved water use efficiency (WUE) has an upper limit determined by that field’s LE and its variance’. The specific objectives were to: Determine/update the salinity relationships for irrigated horticulture along the Lower (more)...

Irrigation Update No.7 Newsletter of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation

Vol 7 May 2006

In this issue:

  • Report card on National Program
  • Getting the best out of NWC funding
  • Visit us at Stand 415 at IAA2006