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Seminars on Irrigation Scheduling and Crop Management, Australia,
October 1996
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'A practical approach using soil moisture measurements'
Simon Turner, a principal with Agri-Tech Services, UK and Cape
Irrigation
Consultants, South Africa, will be presenting seminars in
Australia on
scheduling irrigations for improved crop management. Agri-Tech
consults
principally with fruit and vegetable growers in the UK and
Europe. CIC
covers a large part of southern Africa monitoring a range of
crops from
citrus and table grapes in the Western Cape to avocado, bananas
and sugar in
Swaziland.
The seminars will be using case studies to illustrate how
irrigations can be
scheduled with precise accuracy, applying water as and when
required. Such
techniques allow for manipulation of crop yield and quality, of
particular
interest to the wine grape industry. Field monitoring becomes
even more
essential with modern irrigation methods such as trickle tape.
The seminars will be of interest not only to growers but also to
anyone
considering establishing an irrigation monitoring consultancy.
Irrigation Scheduling - how much to apply, and when
Field Capacity - Determining the Full Point
Refill Point - when to irrigate
Available water in the soil profile
Extent of wetting zones
Irrigation efficiency
Putting RDI into practice
Notes will be provided. The case notes are not from research
programmes,
but the result of measurements made by commercial growers as part
of routine
crop monitoring
Dates
Friday 4th October 1996, Tocal College, Maitland, NSW
Contact Norm Cross, NSW Dept of Agriculture +61 (49) 30 2403
fax +61 (49)
30 2410
Monday 7th October 1996, Coonawarra, SA
Contact Gareth Rogers +61 (87) 249 758 m +61 (18) 838 026
Wednesday 9 October 1996, Waikerie, SA
Contact Xavier Ruis, RoyMac Irrigation +61 (85) 413 346 fax +61
(85) 413
322 email <xavi@riverland.com.au>
Simon Turner, Agri_Tech UK +44 (1767) 62 7334 m: +44 (374) 965
480
CIC, South Africa +27 (24) 852 6106
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Trevor Finch
Research Services New England
8/16 Nicholson St, Balmain NSW 2041 Australia
email: rsne@mpx.com.au
tel: +61 (2) 9810 3563
fax: +61 (2) 9810 3323
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