Risk is ever-present in Australian agriculture. It is not a new issue for farm businesses and has in fact often been the driver for new ideas, innovation and change.

This report captures the key principles of sustainable irrigation at the farm scale. And is an update including recent research.

Irrigation occupies a very small portion of Australia - 5% of tilled agricultural lands - but produces 30% of all agricultural production.

Research recently completed by CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences aimed to identify likely changes to irrigation practices, the potential implications for native biodiversity in irrigation landscapes, and strategies to help red

Presented in this report is a new system of orchard soil management that overcomes coalescence.