Talking Water - Tuesday 2 April, 2024

This week's contents

Murray Irrigation General Meeting

• General Meeting information

Operations

• Water order and Daylight Saving
• Water Delivery Performance
• Talking Water data     
  

Industry

• Nuffield Australia scholarships
• Pasture Field Walk - Barooga

Murray Irrigation General Meeting - 10 April 2024

Confidential online voting opens tomorrow, 3 April  

Murray Irrigation's General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 10 April at the Deniliquin RSL, commencing at 10.00am.

This General Meeting will be held as a hybrid meeting, which will enable shareholders to participate either in person or online. 
 
Shareholders who are not attending the General Meeting can cast their votes early and confidentially either via post or electronically. 

Shareholders must be financial by 10.00am on Sunday 7 April to be eligible to vote. Check here for more information. 

How and when can I cast my vote?
 
Eligible shareholders can vote:

1. Confidentially online from tomorrow, 3 April 2024.
2. Via post (postal voting is already open).
3. In person or online at the meeting on Wednesday, 10 April 2024.
4. By appointing a proxy to vote on your behalf. 

Read our 'How to vote' Shareholder Update for more information.
 
Finding the latest General Meeting information 

To stay up to date with the latest General Meeting information, including the Notice of Meeting, statements from all Directors, and today's Chair Update visit: www.murrayirrigation.com.au/general-meeting   

Director contact details

If you would like to speak with any Murray Irrigation Directors about the General Meeting, you can find their contact details on the above mentioned General Meeting webpage, or as listed below: 

Phil Snowden

Chair

0427 839 217

Lachlan Marshall

Deputy Chair

0419 667 053

Brendan Barry

Shareholder Director

0427 519 481

Steven Fawns

Shareholder Director

0428 303 316

Troy Mauger

Shareholder Director

0417 375 168

Robert Burbury

Independent Director

0418 130 848

Trisha Gorman

Independent Director

0439 530 469

Water orders and Daylight Saving

Don't forget that Daylight Saving ends this Sunday, 7 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 Operations staff will manually adjust all orders ending after 7 April to the correct finish time for the channel system.

For more information or assistance with orders, call Customer Operations on 1300 138 265.

Water Delivery Performance 25/03/2024 - 31/03/2024 

Talking Water data 02/04/2024

All the detailed data for Murray Irrigation allocations, delivery, channel flow and Water Exchange temporary trade is available on our company web page below. 

To see the latest data for Murray system storages and rivers, visit the Murray Darling Basin Authority's River data page. 

Additional resources 

MDBA weekly report
NSW Water allocation statements
Rainfall and evaporation
Barmah Choke trade balance

The information and data provided in Talking Water is for general reference purposes only. We take best endeavours to ensure accuracy. 

Industry News

Nuffield Australia drought resilience scholarships

Applications for 2025 Nuffield drought resilience scholarships are now open.

These scholarships support successful applicants to build drought resilience expertise, adapt innovative technology and practices from overseas and share these learnings to advance Australian agriculture.

Applications close on Friday 31 May 2024. 

Click the button below to find out more about the program and how to apply. 

Pasture Field Walk - Barooga

Riverine Plains invites all to attend a pasture field walk at Barooga this Thursday, 4 April from 9.30am to 1.30pm. 

Key areas of focus:

• Introduce the trial plan and protocol, along with the project purpose and background. The benefits of rotationally grazing lucerne based pastures for improving pasture persistence, performance and quality, as well as animal production, will be discussed. 
• Modelling outcomes of rotational vs set stock grazing, spring vs autumn lambing, and lucerne vs volunteer annual grasses, on pasture and animal performance.
• Maximising pasture performance and persistence – soil acidity, sampling, and management; lucerne density, and companion species for optimal pasture performance and persistence.

Contact Livestock officer Sophie Hanna on sophie@riverineplains.org.au for more information, or click below to register your attendance.