Irrigated Cropping Forum publications

ICF publications:

Lifting irrigated cropping profitabilty and water use efficiency

14 case studies of irrigators in the southern Murray-Darling Basin making their businesses viable with new ideas and less water.

Irrigated Cropping Forum - main report

by Dennis E Toohey & Associates in conjunction with Stephen Chaffey, Chaffey and Associates

Irrigated Grain Crops – A scoping study of southern Murray-Darling basin (full report - 3.3 MB pdf)
Irrigated Grain Crops – A scoping study of southern Murray-Darling basin (summary - 1.2 MB pdf )
Irrigated Grain Crops – A scoping study of southern Murray-Darling basin (summary addendum - 72 k pdf)

Wheat Management

High-Yielding Irrigated Wheat Crop Management
by Dr Maarten Stapper, CSIRO Plant Industry (642 k PDF file)

Crop Monitoring and Zadoks Growth Stages for Wheat
by Dr Maarten Stapper, CSIRO Plant Industry (670 k PDF file)

Canola Issues

Evaluating the potential for dual-purpose (graze/grain) canola in the mixed farming systems of southern Australia.
Risk and Opportunity Assessment Report GRDC Project CSP00085 (735 k PDF file)

Growing dryland canola in 2007 (213 k PDF file)

Challenges for irrigated canola in 2007 (213 k PDF file)

Managing sclerotinia stem rot in canola (266 k PDF file)

Oilseed Outcomes Newsletter

Oilseed Outcomes No 1 - July 2006 (174 k PDF file)

Oilseeds Newsletter

The current Oilseed Industry Newsletter is listed below (Acrobat version 7 PDF format)

Oilseeds Industry News No 42 - 24 August 2008 (244 k PDF file)

All Previous issues of the Oilseeds Newsletter can be found on this page (in volume number order) or split into topics under the following headings - Safflower; Canola or Soybeans.

Soybean Issues

Australian Soybean Marketing Guide for Growers - February 2008 (2.8 MB PDF file)

VICC publications:

VICC newsletters

Newsletter No 12 (312 k PDF file)
Newsletter No 13 (139 k PDF file)
Newsletter No 14 (216 k PDF file)
Newsletter No 15 (181 k PDF file)

VICC/DPI Trial Results

Northern agronomy team 2006 irrigated trial block results (312 k PDF file)

IREC publications:

Farmers Newsletter

MRDC publications:

TBA

LIRAC publications:

TBA