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Improving Farm Water Use Efficiency - Digital technology implementation and training to improve overall on-farm productivity and improve farm water-use efficiencies.

The Stirlings to Coast Farmers (SCF) Producer Technology Uptake Program (PTUP) Water Use Efficiency trial involves the implementation of digital technologies that help raise grower's awareness of weather variability and methods to improve overall on-farm water use efficiency. This two-part program will involve a workshop-based training component first, followed by a broad-scale member trial which utilises low-cost rain-gauge devices scattered across 24 farming organisations throughout the Great Southern region of WA. This rainfall data will be collated to produce rainfall variability maps each week, and a final rainfall value map and yield potential map will be produced at the end of the season. Producers will be able to then critically analyse their management processes and identify potential shortcomings where their actual yield is lower than their potential yields. 
At project conclusion, producers will ultimately have a better understanding of how digital technologies can be utilised to better inform decision-making processes that will improve farm productivity, and how to best implement them from experience. 

Project date

30 May 2021-30 May 2022
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Principal investigator

Philip Honey

Research organisations

Stirlings to Coast Farmers Inc

Project funded by

Multiple industries
Alternative protein Aquaculture Cereal grains Cross industry Essential oils Fruits Game Honey bees Nuts Other rural industries Pasture, fodder & feed Poultry Pulse grains

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  • Location

    Australia

  • Organisation type

    Research funding body

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