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Taking place on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 November, the Agriculture Roundtable Conference 2010 will feature a 'Great Debate' on water policy.
>Farm Policy Journal May 2010: If I were the Australian Minister for Agriculture...
The winners of the competition have been announced. Congratulations Peter Mahony and Bruce Currie!
>Research Report: Making decisions about environmental water allocations
How can objective decisions be made about how much water is required by the environment? Can environmental outcomes be measured and valued? How can decisions be made about whether environmental water is being efficiently used to achieve environmental outcomes?
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Final report and case studies, FarmGAS calculator
A final report of the FarmGAS
calculator projet has now been released. The report contains the results of
a number of case-study farm businesses.
“The FarmGAS Calculator has been developed to enable farm business managers to firstly gain a better understanding of the greenhouse emission implications of their farm management decisions, and also to provide a tool that will enable farmers to test a range of different farm management scenarios to gain a better understanding of potential future options.” says Mick Keogh Executive Director of the Australian Farm Institute.
This new release provides the results arising from a number of case-study farm businesses that have been analysed using the FarmGAS calculator, the first comprehensive, multiple-enterprise, greenhouse emissions calculator that has been developped for Australian farm businesses. The case studies detailed in the report include:
- Case Study 1: Dryland, mixed (cattle – weaners, sheep – wethers, winter crops)
- Case Study 2: Dryland, livestock only (cattle – weaners, sheep – prime lambs)
- Case Study 3: Dryland cropping only, crop areas = winter 60% summer 40%
- Case Study 4: Feedlot – Steers
- Case Study 5: Intensive piggery
- Case Study 7: Irrigated cropping (Queensland)
- Case Study 8: Beef production – Northern Territory
The report is accessible free-of-charge here.
