Water for Profit fact sheets

General
Water for Profit - What's it all about?
 

Monitoring Systems
Interpreting soil moisture data
Choosing a soil-water monitoring tool
Soil-water monitoring tools - pros and cons
Positioning of soil-water monitoring tools
Tensiometers in irrigation
Installation of tensiometers
Soil moisture monitoring tube installation
Gopher - calibration
Gopher - probe readings
Weather stations

Irrigation Management
Fertigation
Methods of fertigation
Fertigation management
Measuring fertigation system performance
Fertiliser solubility and compatibility chart
Common unit conversions
Estimating crop water use based on evaporation measurements
Estimating how much water should be applied
Converting readily available water to hours of irrigation - drip systems
Packing shed water treatment options

Scheduling calculation sheets
Travelling gun irrigation system
Tree/vine micro-irrigation with overlap of water from emitters along the row
Tree/vine micro-irrigation without overlap of water from emitters along row
Row crop micro-irrigation (drip) overlap of water from emitters along row
Row crop micro-irrigation (drip) without overlap of water from emitters along the row
Handshift and solid set sprinkler irrigation systems
Travelling boom irrigation system

Crop backgrounds
Understanding the annual growth cycle of citrus

System Evaluation
Benchmarking water use
Basic design requirements for solid set spray, microspray and drip systems in horticulture
Reading engine performance curves
Reading pump performance curves
Pump efficiency: factors and costs
Centre pivots - system performance evaluation
Centre pivots - catch can trials
Lateral moves and low pressure booms - catch can trials
Solid set and handshift systems - catch can trials
Travelling guns - gun rotation angle effects
Wind effects on the performance of travelling guns
Drip and micro systems - catch can trials
Calculating distribution uniformity (DU)
Measuring flow rates in micro-irrigation systems
Travelling guns - catch can trials

Soils
Soil components: the building blocks
Soil texture
Soil water and texture
How much water is in my soil?
Soil pH
Measuring and adjusting soil pH

System Maintenance
Micro-system filtration
Water quality
Drip line maintenance: chlorination
Drip line maintenance: acid treatment
Drip line maintenance: line flushing
Micro-sprinkler system checks

Sustainable Irrigation
Salts in the crop root zone
Estimating the level of salt in the crop root zone
Ensuring an acceptable level of salts in the crop root zone
Drought management - options for managing with limited water
Managing irrigation salinity
Managing irrigation sodicity
Water quality parameters

Crop water use efficiency benchmarking
(note: some of these are region specific)
Apples
Avocados in the Sunshine Coast
Avocados in the Lower Burnett
Avocados in Far North Qld
Bananas
Bananas in north Queensland
Beetroot
Broccoli (Brassica)
Capsicum
Citrus
Green Beans
Lettuce
Lychees
Mango
Mangoes in North Qld
Olives
Onion
Papaw in Central Qld
Potato
Pumpkins
Rockmelons & Honeydew
Strawberries
Stonefruit
Sweet Corn
Sweet Potato
Table Grapes
Tomato
Tomatoes in North Qld
Watermelons
Zucchini and Squash