A blurb at the top: “The Rural R&D for Profit project: Smarter Irrigation for Profit – Phase 2 (SIP2) was a cross-sector partnership tackling the challenge of reduced water availability by focusing on practical, cost effective strategies to improve the water productivity of Australian cropping and pasture irrigators. The project was a partnership between the major irrigation industries of cotton, dairy, sugar, rice and grains, research organisations and farmer groups. Ag Econ completed economic case studies to investigate the on farm costs and benefits of adopting the SIP2 research outputs”.

• A list of each output

  • SIP2 Economic case study: Integrated smart sensing and automation for cotton bankless channel irrigation

  • SIP2 Economic case study: Smarter irrigation control in rice growing systems

  • SIP2 Economic case study: Evaporation mitigating solutions for Australian cotton water storages

  • SIP2 Economic case study: Automated cotton irrigation with small pipe through bank (sPTB)

  • SIP2 Economic case study: Responsive cotton irrigation management with Canopy Temperature Stress technology

  • SIP2 Economic case study: Irrigation water in dry years: Sell, buy, or apply? A supplementary irrigated wheat scenario, Central West NSW

  • SIP2 Economic case study: Economic costs and benefits of winter cropping irrigation scenarios in Northern Vic

  • SIP2 Economic case study: Assessing the economic benefits of supplementary irrigation in sugar production – Central Qld

• The Economic Case studies can be found on the SIP2 website