Publications
IREC and its industry partners develop fact sheets to educate growers and the broader community on irrigated agriculture. The fact sheets are designed to be a practical tool that can be used as a helpful reference.
Winter Crop Variety Sowing Guide 2023 NSW DPI
Managing Irrigation Dams for Carbon Benefits Dr Jackie Webb Deakin University
Crop Variety Update – Newer varieties and potential releases 2023
IREC Irrigation Research Update 2022 – Click here to review July 2022 event
IREC Irrigation Research Update 2021 – Click here to review (note – event cancelled due to COVID)
NSWDPI Management Guide – Insect and mite control in field crops 2022
Fall Army Worm Information
Fall army worm ID process Nov 2020 FAW familiarisation sessions Insect ID request FAW after detection
Quick links
The IREC field site weather station is online.
You can view the data at ozforecast: Weather Station online
Spray Awareness
Murrumbidgee Case Studies (Maximising on-farm irrigation profitability project)
IREC Conducting On-Farm Trials
Have a listen to the podcasts on On-Farm Trials where Anthony Rudd, Iva Quarisa, Emma Ayliffe and Kieran O’Keeffe breakdown the steps involved in setting up and doing good on-farm trials.
Podcasts available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Episode 1 – Importance of a solid process and flexible planning – Spotify or Apple.
Episode 2 – Trial methods and planning for your on-farm trials – Spotify or Apple.
Episode 3 – Provide insight into the on-farm trial process – Spotify or Apple.
Check out the power-point with good advice for on-farm trials – Power point presentation
Getting value from on-trial farm – Evidence based Agriculture
IREC Field Days
2022 – Field Day Booklet 2022
2021 – Field Day Booklet 2021
2019 – Presenters Information
Dr Wendy Quayle (Deakin University)
Can chicken litter be used as a reliable supply of supplemental in-crop N and P whilst simultaneously improving long term soil health
Ben Macdonald and Dio Antille (CSIRO)
Improving the Nitrogen use efficiency of cotton crops through better understanding the role of dissolved organic N
Is splitting N fertiliser a more efficient strategy
IREC Forums
Breaking New Ground Forum – Griffith 8/8/19
Breaking New Ground – Airlie Hoskins_RFCS
Business and Technology Forum Presentations June 2018
Business and Technology Forum Booklet
2018_19 Season Forecast and Dam situation (SHL_James Pirozzi)
Financials for forward planning (Rabobank_Steve Bourke)
Irrigation Automation, A QLD example (AgriTech Solutions_Steve Attard)
Protecting the business_succession, insurance & Super (CBA_Glen Wilson)
R&D in rice around the world (Sunrice_Russell Ford)
Seasonal Water Price Influences (Key Water _Anthony McCloskey)
Various images with local results (Independent Precision Ag_Thane Pringle)
Water Products, which one to choice (Riverina Agriconsultants_Michael Ryan)
IREC AGM Reports (are available in the Members Only section)
Area Wide Management of Weeds Project
2021 Project Update Meeting – presentation by Chris Preston (Resistance Results):
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/1fZsBzJQNeEWhczWAo6i-QUbKbR9IlVQcx1duBBXphZUU7Y8iPaJ8I3kfPGjLnUO.Pk7N2JRfKSQn7IIu
Passcode: [email protected]
2021 project update meeting – presentations by Sonia Graham (Social Survey results), James Hereward (Genetics Results) and Emma Ayliffe (Local Trials Results):
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/VeNa9lbc-WWYOgYZ2uZz3xAEqx8WPmGhYH-5RlUs2G9cFYmucg34cbBSZeKliqLX.yI4nWGoeSSyJMSxV
Passcode: @9Tv5Lr.
Irrigation Trials
Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association Irrigation System Comparison 2016
Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association 2017 Field Day Booklet
Rice Industry
Rice Field Guide – Pests, Diseases and Weeds Southern NSW
2020-21 Rice Crop Protection Guide
Late Sowing Rice Recommendations Oct 2020
Rice Extension Newsletter – October 16 compressed
Cotton Industry
Cotton Retention Trial 2021_22
Cotton Pest Management Guide 2022-23
Australian Cotton Production Manual 2018
Gwydir Valley Cotton Growers Association and GVIA – 2016 Row Configuration Trial
Black root rot update Oct 2016
Considerations with a wet start
Maize Industry
Maize – 2019-20 interim results
Pulse Industry
Case Study – Improving Soil Health with Winter Pulses
Case Study – Speaking from Experience – A Pulse Grower
NSWDPI Managing Botrytis in chickpeas in 2021
NSWDPI Managing viruses in pulses in 2021
NSWDPI – Managing Ascochyta Blight in Chickpeas in 2020
GRDC – Northern Pulse Check 2019 wrap
GRDC – Fumigating with phosphine, other fumigants and controlled atmospheres
GRDC – Economics of on-farm grain storage
Viticulture Weeds Project
Riverina Grape Growers Weeds Trial 2021
Yenda Producers Weeds Trial 2021
Winter Crops
2022 NSW DPI Winter Crop Variety Sowing Guide
2021 GRDC Fact Sheet Blackleg Management Guide Spring
UTE Guide Weeds Grain Cropping
2021 GRDC Russian Wheat Aphid Fact Sheet June
2020 GRDC NVT report Southern-NSW
Profitable Canola 20 Tips – Central & South NSW
2020 NSW DPI Chickpea Notes and NVT Entries
2020 NSW DPI Wheat Variety Notes
2020 NSW DPI Barley Variety Notes
NSW DPI – Eight tonne Wheat Club – Irrigated Wheat Fact Sheet
GRDC Irrigated Wheat in the Murrumbidgee, Murray Fact Sheet
2020 NSW DPI Weed Control for winter crops
2019 NSW Canola Phenology Results
2019 NSW DPI Canola Notes and NVT Entries
2019 NSW DPI Faba bean Notes and NVT Entries
2018 NSW DPI Irrigated Canola in Southern Cropping Systems
DPIRD-Frost Identification Guide for Canola and Pulses
Primefact – Drought affected canola and wheat feed quantity and quality decline in standing crops
2018 NSW DPI – Cereal Variety Field Day Notes (available in the Member only section)
2018 GRDC – Common Cropping weeds
2017 GRDC – Better Irrigated Wheat Agronomy
GRDC UPDATES – Griffith 13 August, 2019
Rosemary Richards, GO Resources Pty Ltd
Super high oleic oil safflower – what is the fit for irrigators – Griffith Update 2019
Ehsan Tavakkoli, NSW DPI
Ameliorating sodic subsoil constraints under irrigation – Griffith Update 2019
Tony Napier, NSW DPI
Time of sowing impacts on lentil and chickpea performance – Griffith Update 2019
Chris Preston, University of Adelaide
Managing those hard to kill weeds – Griffith Update 2019
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