Alternative and renewable energy sources, including solar for powering cotton production, were hot topics at this week’s (24 and 25 February) CottonInfo Big Days Out at St George, QLD and Gunnedah, NSW.

This benchmarking report presents direct energy data (diesel and electricity use) collected on irrigated Australian cotton farms.

A comprehensive testing program of conventional large mixed flow pumps typically used on cotton irrigation farms has found that these pumps, if correctly tuned, can operate at high efficiency levels with reduced energ

Lifting and moving water around farms with pumping systems for irrigation consumes plenty of energy as water is a heavy liquid. Every litre of water has a mass of one kilogram.

We know energy's one of your fastest growing on-farm costs... but did you know there are ways to reduce both your energy use and the impact on your bottom line