Talking Water - Tuesday 9 April, 2024

This week's contents

Murray Irrigation General Meeting

• Voting at this Wednesday's meeting

Operations

• 2024 Season Trade closure dates
• Barham Choke trade opportunity notification
• Applying to discharge water into drainage system
• 2024 Winter Maintenance Zones
• Water Delivery Performance
• Talking Water data 

Business

• Free counselling services available to shareholders
• LWMP Update - Trust transfer complete

Industry

• Dairy Farm Business Analysis
• Stock Water Management Project
• GRDC Grains Research Online Update - Pre Sowing

Murray Irrigation General Meeting - This Wednesday 10 April 2024

Murray Irrigation's General Meeting will be held this Wednesday, 10 April, at 10.00am.

This General Meeting will be held as a hybrid meeting, which will enable shareholders to participate either in person or online.

For shareholders attending in person, the meeting will be held at the Deniliquin RSL Club, 72 End Street, with registrations opening at 9.30am. 

Online attendees can watch live by logging in at: 
https://meetings.linkgroup.com/MILGM24
 
Voting at this Wednesday's General Meeting 

With postal and early online voting now closed, shareholders who have not yet cast their vote will have the opportunity to do so confidentially during the General Meeting proceedings either online (via this link https://meetings.linkgroup.com/MILGM24) or in person (using voting cards provided on registration at the meeting), from 9.30am until the conclusion of the General Meeting.
 
For information on how to participate and cast your vote online during the General Meeting proceedings, please follow the instructions outlined in the Hybrid Meeting Online Guide.
 
For more information on the General Meeting please visit www.murrayirrigation.com.au/general-meeting or contact the Company Secretary on 1300 138 265 or companysecretary@murrayirrigation.com.au.

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

2024 Season Trade closure dates

• Friday 21 June, 5.00pm - Water Exchange (WEX) closes. 
• Monday 24 June, 5.00pm - External transfers to / from Murray Irrigation close. 
• Tuesday 25 June, 5.00pm - Internal transfers to / from Murray Irrigation landholdings close. 
• Tuesday 25 June, 5.00pm - Customer Portal access closes. 
• Monday 1 July - Water Exchange (WEX) and Customer Portal re-open.
  

Barmah Choke trade opportunity on 1 July

WaterNSW has released a trade notification about Barmah Choke Trade. Please click the button below to read this notice.



2024 Winter Maintenance Zones

The areas in green on the above map (or view via our website) will be drained as part of our Maintenance Strategy.

You can view the maintenance year for each of your outlets on the 'My Outlets' page of your Customer Portal.

Water Delivery Performance 01/04/2024 - 07/04/2024 

Talking Water data 09/04/2024

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. 

Free counselling services available to shareholders 

In recognition of the difficult circumstances Murray Irrigation and its shareholders are currently facing, the company has this week announced it is extending its Employee Assistance Program (EAP) free of charge to all shareholders until 28 April.

Throughout this period, AccessEAP is also providing an additional dedicated phone support service, where 30-minute confidential counselling sessions can be pre-booked.

In addition, Murray Irrigation has organised for an AccessEAP Clinical Response Counsellor to be onsite on Wednesday 10 April and Thursday 11 April between 10am-4pm which shareholders are more than welcome to utilise.

This service is entirely confidential and available to all shareholders who feel they need extra care and support through this time.

More details are available in the Shareholder Update below. 

LWMP Update - Trust transfer complete

As previously communicated to shareholders, the Supreme Court of NSW approved an application by Murray Irrigation to appoint Riverina Sustainable LWMP Pty Ltd (Riverina Sustainable) as the replacement trustee of the Land and Water Management Plans (LWMP) on 29 February 2024.
 
You can read a copy of the related Shareholder Update here.
 
Murray Irrigation is pleased to confirm these funds, less legal costs, have now been transferred to Riverina Sustainable, and this matter is now complete.

Industry News

Dairy Farm Business Analysis - Free online training

Dairy Farm Business Analysis is designed to assist farmers and their advisers to better understand and analyse farm business performance.

It uses DairyBase and covers the importance of getting annual farm physical and financial numbers right, how to interpret farm performance and how to understand cash, profit and wealth for a dairy farm business using DairyBase reports.

This course is recommended for all dairy farmers and their advisers.

Commencing Wednesday, 24 April, this program will be delivered over seven weeks and will be facilitated by Dairy Business Consultant Fiona Smith and Dairy Australia's Agribusiness Program Lead Greg Duncan. 

Expressions of Interest for stock water demonstration site

RGA Landcare is managing a project to assist in preparing landholders for future dry periods and how they can manage their available stock water effectively.

As part of this project they are looking for expressions of interest from landholders to establish demonstration sites that will showcase best stock water management practices. This may include the installation of stock troughs, fencing of dams or the installation of remote monitoring equipment.

Sites can be located in the dryland or irrigation areas of the Murray Valley catchment.

For more information contact Local Landcare Coordinator, Janet Manzin, on 0438 719 628 or click the button below. 

GRDC Grains Research Online Update - Pre Sowing

This free one-hour lunchtime livestream, which is being held this Thursday 11 April at 1.00pm, will focus on air cart / seeder bar set up and canola establishment. 

A live question and answer session will be included.

Harvester technician Brett Asphar will look at strategies for aircart set up and the fundamentals of seeder bar function, while Ash Wallace from Agriculture Victoria will share some early results from NGN inspired trial work to understand interactions between stubble loads, seeding systems and canola establishment. 

GRDC online events are topic specific, interactive, interview style discussions that address the application of new and relevant information to the latest farming systems.