Irrigation is a key component of cotton production in Australian agriculture, where increasing pressures of water scarcity requires growers to improve their water use efficiency.

This travel scholarship funded the attendance of one researcher to participate and present at the 2018 FUSCOM Conference.

Economic and social concerns are driving an increased focus on water use in irrigated dairying in south east Australia.

The focus of the project was the strengthening of the existing extension efforts on new irrigation scheduling technologies.

This project aimed to improve the profit of 3,000 cotton, dairy, rice and sugar irrigators with the support of 16 research and development partners and 19 farmer irrigation technology learning sites.