Water budgeting - achieving high yields in irrigated wheat

摘要

WHILE cotton production has been traditionally the key focus of many irrigated farming operations in Northern NSW and Southern Queensland, it is well recognised that rotational crops such as irrigated wheat play an important role in breaking the lifecycles of many cotton pests and diseases. Unfortunately, growers have struggled to consistently achieve wheat yields in the order of eight tonnes per hectare, a benchmark often achieved in southern NSW.