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Water

All eyes on water depths

ERRATIC rainfall across the Mallee, and from Mildura east to Swan Hill, for the past four months, has water as a precious commodity well and truly back on the agenda. The region has a huge rainfall event when no-one wanted it, with falls...

08 Feb 2025
Water

Ask questions before water upgrades

WITH seasonal conditions leading to a shortage of stock water across north-west Victoria – and most of the state – there has been renewed interest in constructing farm dams, and the addition of pumps, bores, tanks, troughs and...

21 Jan 2025
Water

Water buybacks open

THE tendering for water buybacks aimed at recovering 70 gigalitres of water from the southern Murray-Darling Basin opned on Monday. Voluntary water purchases, or buybacks, are part of a three-pronged approach by the Federal Government aimed at...

19 Jul 2024
North West Farmer

Getting the best from irrigation systems

AGRICULTURE Victoria urges irrigation farmers to register for one of two upcoming irrigation workshops at Kerang. The workshops are specifically for farmers involved with designing and installing centre-pivot or lateral-move systems...

14 Jun 2024
Farming and Environment

Members wanted for Basin committee

PEOPLE who are passionate about the region’s rivers being encouraged to consider becoming a member of the Murray-Darling Basin Community Committee. Members of the BCC can play a key role in advising the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the...

08 Jun 2024
Water

Praise for catchment report

WATER users along the Lower Darling-Baaka River have praised a report examining connectivity between catchments of the northern NSW Murray-Darling Basin and downstream. Written for the consideration of the New South Wales Government, an independent...

08 May 2024
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North West Farmer

Water markets brace for impact

THE Water Amendment (Restoring our Rivers) Bill is likely to have a significant impact on the water markets now and into the future, according to a water industry expert. Political adviser turned water broker Jon Armstrong says the purpose of the...

23 Feb 2024
North West Farmer

Barrages are hard to sea - Dalton

HELEN Dalton is one angry independent NSW state MP following her recent five-day tour of South Australia’s Lower Lakes – the last stop of the Murray-Darling Basin before the open sea. Mrs Dalton said it was time for governments such as NSW and...

23 Feb 2024
Water

Falls weigh on water market

THE water market is entering a highly fluid situation, with change driven by the Federal Government’s success in passing its buyback legislation. At the same time, nearly every aspect of farming across north-west Victoria is under the...

24 Jan 2024
Environment

It’s a lot to soak in for farm roads

SEVERAL wild and wet weather events across northern Victoria have compounded damage already caused by December’s that included soil erosion on farm roads, tracks and driveways. While some of the massive falls, which dumped 100mm-plus in...

22 Jan 2024
North West Farmer

Wakool farmer becomes NFFs Mr Billboard

The National Farmers’ Federation says farmers have always put food on the table and clothes on the backs of Australians. But right now, the peak agricultural body says decisions are being made in Canberra which will make it harder to...

17 Nov 2023
Water

Framework for water-take fairness

NEW legislation to further protect water users’ entitlements will come into effect next month. The Place of Take Approvals framework will ensure all entitlement holders will maintain their rights to take water in the rare event that river rationing...

27 Oct 2023
Water

Daily irrigation data to aid growers

For nearly 30 years, Agriculture Victoria has been supplying Sunraysia irrigators with weekly information on evapotranspiration (Eto).Now, according to its irrigation extension officer Maxine Schache, things are...

28 Jul 2023
Opinion

Irrigators call for extended timelines to finalize Murray Darling Basin Plan

OPINION By Isaac Jeffery THE National Irrigators’ Council has released its submission to the finalising the Murray Darling Basin Plan ideas consultation process. It comes as the Federal Water Minister has asked the Basin Authority to report on...

08 Jul 2023
North West Farmer

Georgian agriculture looks to Sunraysia for irrigation modernisation ideas

To put Georgia in context, at 69,700sqkm it is only about 1000sqkm bigger than Tasmania – but with a population of 3.7 million (compared with Tasmania’s 545,000).And that’s where the similarities end. Tasmania has 24 per cent of the state’s...

16 Jun 2023
North West Farmer

Sharing our irrigation learnings

SWAN Hill played a pivotal role in a Georgian government fact-finding group which last week completed an intensive tour of Sunraysia and our region for guidance in returning the small eastern European country’s irrigated agriculture...

09 Jun 2023
North West Farmer

Georgia’s appetite for learning

A Georgian government fact-finding group has toured the Sunraysia and Swan Hill this week for guidance in returning the small eastern European country irrigated agriculture industry to its former glory. In 1990, while still a satellite state of the...

06 Jun 2023