Grains

Water Smart Cotton and Grains

Water Smart Cotton and Grains is a water use efficiency project that improved knowledge transfer and built capacity within these industries to adopt best irrigation practice.

It followed on from the achievements of the ‘Knowledge Management in Irrigated Cotton and Grains’ and ‘Advancing Water Management in NSW’ projects to further improve water use efficiency within the cotton and grains industries.

Increasing the resilience of Eastern Australian irrigated farm businesses

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.

Resilience of eastern irrigated farm businesses

This power point presentation looks at using land for both cotton and grains to take advantage of land resources and moisture reserves can mean economic and water use efficiency gains.

Increasing the Resilience of Eastern Australia Irrigated Farm Businesses

This case study looks at trialling retention of corn stubble as an inexpensive way to reduce soil water evaporation.

Science and the irrigator a learning manifesto

This bulletin explores the relationship between local irrigation practice and adaptive learning. When combined the shared conceptualisation of real world problems leads to better industry outcomes. The research bulletin uses a case study of irrigating a sweet corn crop with waste water to demonstrate this process in action.

Knowledge management in irrigated cotton and grains - stage II

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 Extension methodology Training (more)...

Signposts for Australian Agriculture Stage 3b

At this point, the project has developed an interactive, user-friendly website which houses the Signposts reporting frameworks and provides the first (of six) publicly released industry profiles that are populated with up-to-date information. This report is the first attempt to use the website and industry profile to conduct an analysis of ESD contributions. The analysis begins with assessing ESD contributions from the agriculture industry (more)...

Knowledge Management in Cotton and Grain Irrigation

The Australian Cotton Cooperative Research Centre through this knowledge management project aimed to develop a better understanding of the knowledge pathways being used by irrigated cotton and grain growers, consultants and support agencies.

The current study focused on how cotton and grain irrigators and their consultants access information about irrigation and generate knowledge to make better irrigation decisions.

Knowledge Management in Cotton & Grain Irrigation

Knowledge is fundamental to improving the competitiveness, responsiveness and levels of innovation that we see in industries. This research project aimed to determine how information and knowledge about water management and water use efficiency is being used and managed in irrigated cotton and grains and the key factors influencing decision making. To do this, 90 interviews of growers of cotton and grains, consultants, extension workers, government researcher officers, and irrigation (more)...

Irrigation Update 3 - Newsletter of the National program for Sustainable Irrigation

Knowledge is one of our most valuable and intangible assets. A research project in the cotton and grains industries has been asking the question: how is irrigation information accessed and knowledge managed to make better decisions?