Cotton growers and industry representatives across New South Wales and Queensland are working hard to improve water efficiency. To hear some of the steps they've taken to minimise the impact of the drought, click on the video links below to view the interviews.
| Interview |
Topics |
Length |
Angus O’Brien
Grower
Warren NSW |
- Drip irrigation
- Channel losses, grant to address evaporative losses in delivery system
|
5.20 |
Rob Tuck
Grower
Narromine NSW
|
- Lateral moves
- Broadacre system applied to cotton
- Importance of soil health in water use efficiency
|
6.15 |
Rod Jackson
Irrigation Officer
Namoi Valley NSW |
|
6.40 |
Stacey Spanswick
Catchment Support Officer
Namoi CMA |
- Benefits of water use efficiency to industry
- Namoi CMA support for cotton industry water use efficiency + grower participation and results
- Collaborative approach
|
4.06 |
Andrew Greste
Grower
Burren Junction
|
- Flexibility in the farming system
- New ways of thinking, new approaches
- A range of smaller techniques that have added up to good WUE performance
|
5.15 |
Phil Armytage
CEO
Cotton CRC
|
- CRC’s ambitions and activities in R&D regarding water use efficiency
- Industry challenges in WUE
|
2.15 |
Johannes Roellgen (grower) and Matthew Holding (consultant)
Brookstead, Darling Downs QLD
|
- Good pre-crop planning and all-round agronomy
- Use of RR to reduce cultivation
- Short season varieties
- Getting water on and off fields quickly
- Lateral move
- Data on improvements
|
5.20 |
Brett Bidstrupp (grower), Murray Boshimer (consultant) and Sarah Hood (project manager)
Condamine QLD
|
- EM surveys, Irrimate
- Water budgeting
- Overcoming challenges of varying soil types
- Centre pivots
- Mapping storage capacity
|
6.40 |
