Key Findings for NPSI Project CIF5121: 1. Ensuring rainfall flushes salt is the key to sustaining supplementary irrigation with saline groundwater 2.

Over the last decade, grape growers in SE South Australia have had their water entitlements

converted to volumetric allocations, experienced a reduction in annual rainfall and seen a

Irrigated vineyards in Australia have seen extensive adoption of drip irrigation. At the start of this project there was concern about the sustainability of drip irrigation based on previous field observations.

Brian Caddy was involved on the project steering committee of the Root Zone Water, Salinity and Nutrient Management Under Precision Irrigation Project managed by Dr Tapas Biswas and Dr Gerrit Schrale which focused on

This case study looks at root zone and salinity monitoring and the potential impact of seasonal conditions on vineyard production.