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Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms E-newsletter

Healthy Soils E-News was a fortnightly newletter prepeared by Sue Webster for the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms Progam.

Download the zip file below and unzip the contents. The folder contains enewsletter editions 20-49.

Separating almond evapotranspiration into soil water evaporation and crop transpiration

The estimation of crop water use is a key input into much of the software which supports irrigation management. The most common method used to derive this estimate is to calculate it from weather data and coefficients specific to crop type and growing…

Investigating lake/groundwater interactions at Lake Tutchewop

Salinity is an on-going environmental concern that causes damage to agricultural land, downstream water users, aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as to regional and urban infrastructure. One strategy to manage increasing salinity in the Murray Darling Basin is the construction of 13 major salt interception schemes that divert 550,000 tonnes of salt away from the Murray River each year (Figure 1). The Barr Creek Drainage Disposal Scheme is one of these schemes diverting saline water into (more)...

Climag Magazine 16

With climate change predictions pointing to Australia’s climate becoming even more variable, farmers are looking for more accurate seasonal forecasts that can be interpreted to help them better make decisions about planting, sowing, harvesting and stockin