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Increasing the resilience of Eastern Australian irrigated farm businesses

Fact Sheet

This report looks at the experiences from farming systems that used experimental and participatory modelling methods to explore farmer’s opportunities to develop more profitable and less risky irrigated cotton, grains and rice-grains farm businesses.

  • Publication
  • Fact Sheet
  • 2012
  • Product code NPSI0112
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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The Healthy Soils Symposium - Can Australian Soils Sustain our Agricultural Systems?

Proceedings

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)...

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  • Conference Papers and Proceedings
  • Product code PN30193
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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Water Smart Cotton and Grains in NSW

Irrigators want to improve WUE in terms of bales per ML or tonnes per ML, with the intention to maximise their profitability or $/ML. An important step to achieving this is through the adoption of irrigation management best practices. Consultants will be mentored to increase their knowledge, skills and confidence to deliver a range of irrigation services. Irrigation training, farm (more)...
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Monitoring aqueous rootzone conditions under irrigated cotton and grains

Felicity Roos, at the University of Sydney, will be doing a short trial of the ‘SoluSampler’. The SoluSampler is a water sampler that collects samples at various root depths in order to monitor rootzone salinity. This tool has been used in citrus and grape crops and Felicity will be testing it for suitability for monitoring nutrient leaching and salinity levels under irrigated cotton and grains.

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  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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Signposts for Australian agriculture: the Australian grains 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)...

  • Publication
  • Fact Sheet
  • 2008
  • Product code PN21918
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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Signposts for Australian agriculture: the Australian grains 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, strategic decision making and research priorities. Agriculture is under pressure to demonstrate its performance credentials - in particular its environmental credentials, and to inform the community about its management practices. The agriculture (more)...

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2008
  • Product code PN21910
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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