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Smarter Irrigation 2: Improved irrigation system selection and operation for increased sugarcane productivity and profitability logo
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Smarter Irrigation 2: Improved irrigation system selection and operation for increased sugarcane productivity and profitability

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

Irrigation management is critical to the profitability and economic sustainability of Australia’s 166,000ha of irrigated sugarcane. Factors such as yield response to irrigation, water availability, energy and water costs all impact financial viability. This project aims to improve the capability of growers and extension staff to use irrigation information and...

1 Jul 2019 - 30 May 2022

New South Wales, Australia

University of Southern Queensland (USQ), AgriTech Solutions, Daleys Water Services

Smarter Irrigation 2: Key Learning Sites Southern (making the most of water) logo
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Smarter Irrigation 2: Key Learning Sites Southern (making the most of water)

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project aims to increase water productivity and profitability by expanding growers’ knowledge of irrigation technology and best practice management. The project is grower driven with grower groups involved with the management and activities at each of the key learning sites located in the Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and Murray valleys. A...

1 Jul 2019 - 30 May 2022

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI), Irrigated Cropping Counc...

Smarter Irrigation 2: Improving the science of water footprinting logo
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Smarter Irrigation 2: Improving the science of water footprinting

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

In general terms a water footprint measures the amount of water used to produce each of the goods and services we use. This project will evaluate and potentially improve irrigation water foot printing measurement and reporting methods with the aim of making them more applicable for Australian agriculture. While water...

1 Jul 2020 - 14 Feb 2022

New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI), The University of Sydney (USYD)

Smarter Irrigation 2: Economic dairy case studies logo
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Smarter Irrigation 2: Economic dairy case studies

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

An outcome of the Smarter Irrigation for Profit (SIP) project is the adoption of new irrigation technologies and science application by farmers and irrigation professionals to improve farm profits. This project focusses on the evaluation of the farm level economic impact of adoption of new technologies and practices in the...

1 Nov 2020 - 28 Feb 2022

New South Wales, Australia

D-ARM Consulting

More profit from nitrogen - enhancing nutrient use efficiency in cotton logo
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More profit from nitrogen - enhancing nutrient use efficiency in cotton

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project will undertake research on both nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) and aims to increase understanding of the relationship between soil and fertiliser N & P supply, fertiliser placement, fertiliser timing, and irrigation strategy to achieve greater nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and improved phosphorus soil nutrition. Optimising NUE can...

1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), The Un...

More Profit from Nitrogen - Optimising nitrogen and water interactions in cotton logo
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More Profit from Nitrogen - Optimising nitrogen and water interactions in cotton

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

Organic matter in soil can supply more than 50% of the nitrogen (N) in cotton crops. This pool of N supply is dynamic and difficult to predict because microbial activity, responsible for mineralising soil organic N into plant available forms, is reactive to the extent of soil drying between irrigation...

1 Jul 2016 - 31 Aug 2018

New South Wales, Australia

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

More Profit from Nitrogen - Increasing nitrogen use efficiency in dairy pastures logo
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More Profit from Nitrogen - Increasing nitrogen use efficiency in dairy pastures

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project aims to increase nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in dairy pasture systems where direct loss of nitrogen (N) has been assessed at levels as high as 40%. Previous farm scale work has suggested that small improvements in NUE can provide substantial productivity and profit gains for farm businesses. Recent...

1 Jul 2016 - 30 Nov 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Dairy Australia, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI),

More Profit from Nitrogen - Improving dairy farm nitrogen efficiency using advanced technologies logo
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More Profit from Nitrogen - Improving dairy farm nitrogen efficiency using advanced technologies

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

The science of Nitrogen (N) cycling in dairy systems can be poorly understood by dairy farmers and their agronomists, and consequently current farm practice is often to apply N at a set rate based on expected pasture growth. Amounts of N supplied to the pasture through mineralisation, and the variation...

1 Jul 2016 - 31 May 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Dairy Australia, The University of Melbourne, Dr Graeme Ward consultant

More Profit from Nitrogen - Quantifying the whole farm systems impact of nitrogen best practice on dairy farms logo
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More Profit from Nitrogen - Quantifying the whole farm systems impact of nitrogen best practice on dairy farms

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

The dairy industry has invested in and proven that whole farm system modelling is a highly efficient way to assess the efficacy of a range of management interventions on dairy farms. Over the last 20 years average annual Nitrogen (N) fertiliser use on dairy farms has increased markedly, now approximately...

1 Jul 2016 - 30 Nov 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Dairy Australia, The University of Melbourne, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)

More Profit from Nitrogen - Improved nitrogen use efficiency through accounting for deep soil and mineralisable N supply, and<br /> deployment of Enhanced Efficiency Fertilisers to better match crop N demand logo
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More Profit from Nitrogen - Improved nitrogen use efficiency through accounting for deep soil and mineralisable N supply, and
deployment of Enhanced Efficiency Fertilisers to better match crop N demand

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

This project looks at increasing nitrogen (N) use efficiency in sugar. Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) can be poor, especially after high fertiliser application. Encouragingly, new enhanced efficiency fertiliser (EEF) products better match N release to crop N demand. They may boost NUE and therefore profitability for sugarcane growers. To optimise...

1 Jul 2016 - 31 May 2020

New South Wales, Australia

Sugar Research Australia (SRA), New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI), New South Wales Sugar-Milling Cooperative, Southern Cross University (SCU),