Talking Water - Tuesday 1 April 2025

Reminder - Water orders and Daylight Saving

A reminder that Daylight Saving ends this Sunday 6 April.

For customers placing water orders that end after this date, the water ordering system will automatically reduce your order by an hour to the normal finish time to enable lodgement.
 
Our Customer Experience staff will manually adjust all orders ending after 6 April to the correct finish time for the channel system.
 
For more information or assistance with orders, call our Customer Experience team on 1300 138 265. 

Business News

March Board meeting update

Murray Irrigation held its latest Board meeting on 27 March.

You can find a rundown of the key discussion points and outcomes in the below Chair Update, which was sent to customers yesterday (31 March). 

ICT Transformation Project

Since sending out the abovementioned Chair Update yesterday, Murray Irrigation has received a few customer questions regarding our ICT Transformation Project 

By way of further explanation, the primary objective of the company's Information Communication Technology (ICT) Transformation project is to build a scalable ICT system that meets the current needs of the business and is able to grow with us to respond to future businesses and customer needs. 

Key benefits include: 

• All aspects of the business will integrate and talk to each other, which will streamline processes and improve efficiency and productivity. 
• Improved data security. 
• Enhance how customers interact with Murray Irrigation, whether that be online, on the phone or in person.
• Consolidate the number of IT platforms down to two primary platforms; a Finance and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. 
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An ICT Transformation Project webpage is currently in development, which will provide more detail on the project objectives and expected benefits.

We look forward to sharing the details of this dedicated page when it becomes available in the coming weeks. 

Berriquin Irrigators Council General Meeting

A reminder that the Berriquin Irrigators Council is hosting a General Meeting on Wednesday 9 April. 

The meeting will be held at the Finley Returned Soldiers Club, commencing at 7.00pm.

A copy of the Minutes from the last General Meeting can be found here.

If anyone has an agenda item or a question for Murray Irrigation, could you please email it to Wendy Brooks by tomorrow (Wednesday 2 April): berriquinirrigators@gmail.com 

Growing Soil Carbon 101

Growing Soil Carbon 101 is a self paced course designed for farmers, farm managers, agronomists, land management and NRM advisors, and anyone interested in soil carbon in agricultural systems.

Course participants will receive:

• A comprehensive agronomic and scientific understanding of soil carbon.
• Practical insights from farmers growing soil carbon in cropping and grazing.
• The ins and outs of farm emissions, the tools to measure them and who can help.
•  Familiar with the new carbon economy and its impact on agriculture.
•  Clarity on ACCU Carbon Farming projects and the Soil Carbon Method.



 For more information, head over to the SoilCQuest 2031 website below.

Understanding Soil sampling and Test Results Workshop

Are you interested in increasing your understanding of soil fertility? Or learning to interpret your soil test results?

Do you want to match soil nutrition inputs to your production goals? 

If so, register for one of Murray Local Land Services free 'Understanding soil sampling and test results' workshops to hear from industry experts and learn how to:

• Understand your soil test results
• Identify key constraints
• Develop a management plan.
• Following the workshop and presentations, there will be a visit to a local property for a soil pit demonstration, where industry experts and a local agronomist will be on hand to provide context. 
  
  Workshops details are as follows: 



• Conargo Hall - 20 May 9:30 - 12:30pm 
• Culcairn - 21 May 9:30 - 12:30pm.

Coffee, morning tea and lunch will be provided. 

GRDC online Farm Business Update

Cropping programs are getting bigger, and logistics and timeliness are increasingly important drivers of farm decision making and risks. At the same time there are more and more opportunities supported by data and analysis.

The theme of GRDC's latest online Farm Business Update is: Putting common cropping decision ‘rules’ to the test: Bringing together intuition and analysis.

CSIRO’s Rick Llewellyn and Brendan Brown from the GRDC RiskWi$e initiative will talk through the latest findings on the range of common approaches to on-farm decision making and the achievable steps to getting decisions more right, more often. 
 
They will show examples of common decision types from agronomic to enterprise scale, and consider what ‘rules of thumb’ could be recalibrated.

When: Thursday 3 April
Time: 1.00pm - 2.00pm

Registration for this livestream event is free.

The recording will be uploaded to the GRDC website, past events page to view at a later date.