irrigation

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)...

  • Publication
  • Milestone Report
  • 2004
  • Product code PN21159
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

Changing Irrigation Systems and Management in the Harvey Irrigation Area

Final Report - February 2006

The Harvey Water Irrigation Area (HWIA) is Western Australia’s prime irrigated dairying area supplying Perth and the south west with more than 40 per cent of its milk. Irrigated agriculture commenced in Harvey with the establishment of a weir in 1916. Since that time, pastures have been watered through surface irrigation of paddocks which over time have been leveled and divided into irrigation bays. When this project was envisaged in 2001, there were no centre (more)...

  • Publication
  • Final Report
  • 2006
  • Product code PN21156
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

Irrigation Mosaics in Northern Australia

The Northern Australia Irrigation Futures (NAIF) project has undertaken a review of research into irrigation mosaics as an approach to irrigation in northern Australia. Irrigation mosaics involve smaller patches of irrigation distributed across the landscape as an alternative to large contiguous areas of irrigation. This research has examined the current understanding of irrigation mosaics drawing lessons from ecology, forestry, meteorology and saline basins. This (more)...

  • Publication
  • Newsletter or Periodical
  • 2008
  • Product code PF081449
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

Views on Irrigation Policy in Australia

Water policy in Australia is undergoing considerable and unprecedented change. Most recently, the emphasis on the sustainable management of water resources in the Murray Darling Basin has seen a shift of control from the States to the Commonwealth. The declining availability of water and the subsequent approaches taken by governments, have come under increasing scrutiny from the public. Indeed, the actions associated with water policy in Australia, particularly water used for irrigated (more)...

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2008
  • Product code ER081455
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

Northern Australia Irrigation Futures - Final Report Appendices

Providing new knowledge, tools and processes to support debate and decision making regarding irrigation in northern Australia

These appendices form part of and should be read in conjunction with the Northern Australia Irrigation Futures (NAIF) National Program for Sustainable Irrigation CDS23 final report, which contains a synthesised view of all the NAIF work carried out.

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2007
  • Product code PR071454
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

Long term sustainability of precision irrigation

This project aims to assess soil structural decline under precision irrigation and to suggest management strategies to avoid it. The work so far has largely been confined to drip-irrigated vineyards in the Barossa Valley.

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2008
  • Product code PN20656
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

The Impact of Irrigation on Soil Structure

Good soil structure is an essential element of healthy and sustainable agro-ecosystems. It promotes the development of extensive plant root systems and efficient use of water and nutrients and, in doing so, buffers plants against drought and other adversity. Irrigation places a number of stresses on soil structure. This review examines the nature of soil structure, its role in plant growth, the nature of stresses on soil structure which come from irrigation and management approaches to (more)...

  • Publication
  • Literature Review
  • 2007
  • Product code PN20619
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

Technology Transfer and Adoption in Irrigation

National Program for Irrigation R&D

In September 1993 the Management Committee of the National Program for Irrigation R&D requested the authors to prepare a briefing paper on Technology Transfer. The Committee had identified technology transfer and adoption as a key issue for the R&D program to address.

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 1994
  • Product code PR940206
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

Irrigation Insights 7 - Geophysics for the irrigation industry

Geophysical techniques involve the use of ground-based and airborne geophysical devices to measure physical properties of the earth. They can assist in the planning and management of irrigation developments by identifying the size and depth of aquifers, the connectivity between surface and ground water, the salinity of aquifers, the mineral composition and depth of the soil and the chances of successful water boring. Most geophysics applied to irrigation is in the form of imaging conducted (more)...

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2007
  • Product code PR071288
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download

Irrigation Insights 6 - Irrigation Decisions: from enterprise planning to the paddock

This publication combines the experiences and insights of irrigation consultants and extension officers with that of social, agronomic and engineering scientists. The resultant publication is targeted at those who advise, support and supply irrigation dependent enterprises with new information, tools and equipment.

  • Publication
  • Report
  • 2006
  • Product code PR061174
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
  • Read More and Download