CWFS Lachlan Irrigation Research Site

Written By Cristy Houghton

Central West Farming Systems Inc. (CWFS) received Ministerial Approval to take over management of the Lachlan Irrigation Research Advisory Council (LIRAC) site at Condobolin in August 2013.

The site consists of approximately 120ha and 1224 Meg water.

An Irrigation Committee has been established with representatives from CWFS, industry stakeholders and irrigators.

These include Lachlan Valley Water, State Water, NSW DPI, GRDC Regional Cropping Solutions Irrigation committee members, and past Chairman LIRAC.

A GRDC funded irrigation project is being led by NSW DPI, with collaborators from the Lachlan (CWFS), Murrumbidgee, Murray Valley, NW Victoria and SE South Australia.

This project involves irrigated cereal and canola trials, and the development of a Best Practice Guidelines in Southern Irrigated Cropping Systems. Our projects will help local irrigation farming systems pave the way for agricultural innovation.

CWFS also liaise with CSIRO, Dow Agrosciences and various Universities in providing plots and assisting with important genetic breeding programs, such as Dow’s MAGIC wheat and CSIRO’s twin parent genome mapping wheat project.

CWFS is keen to hear from farmers and industry representatives who wish to be involved in any of the activities and/or potential projects. We will keep you updated with project information and activities.

To assist with the site establishment, any irrigation equipment which is available for either donation or purchase would be greatly appreciated (eg pumps, syphons, etc).

For further information regarding the CWFS Lachlan Irrigation site and its activities, please contact Diana Parsons, CEO CWFS on (02) 6895 1025 or 0408 655 205.

Project Overview – Southern Irrigated Cereal & Canola Achieving Target Yields.

For further information, please contact Tony Napier, Research & Development Agronomist (Irrigated), NSW DPI Yanco Agricultural Institute, P (02) 6951 2796; M 0427 201 839; E tony.napier@dpi.nsw.gov.au
CWFS Southern Irrigated Cereal & Canola Trial Update 25 August 2014

For further information on the CWFS component of this trial, please contact CWFS on (02) 6895 1025.

Related Links

This is the link for “Real Time Data for the Lachlan River (Condobolin B) https://realtimedata.water.nsw.gov.au/water.stm?ppbm=SURFACE_WATER&rs&3&rskm_org

This is the link for the “Daily River Report: Lachlan River” 
https://waterinfo.nsw.gov.au/drr/lachlan.shtml

Cristy Houghton

Cristy's unique career has taken her from country NSW to the city lights of Clarendon Street South Melbourne and back again. With an early career in radio as a copywriter and creative strategist, she is now a Jill of all trades as a graphic designer, website builder, blog writer, video editor, social media manager, marketing strategist and more. 

In fact, give her any task and this chick will figure out how to do it! Go on, we dare you!

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Cristy has won two Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) for Best Ad and Best Sales Promotion, and even has an 'Employee of the Year' certificate with her name on it.

Cristy and her husband James have traveled extensively through Russia, China and South East Asia, and have two fur-babies, Sooty (cat) and Panda (puppy). Cristy loves drinking coffee, meeting people to drink coffee, coffee tasting and coffee flavoured cocktails. She also enjoys road trips, TED Talks and watching cat videos on youtube.

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