9.00 - 9.15 Opening Comments and Introductions Ted Gardner
(Identify what we will have achieved after two days)
(Round table introduction by participants as a warm-up and familiarity exercise) Toss Gascoigne
“Modelling Tools”
9.15 -10.00 Short term Climate Forecasting. Does it work? Dr Beth Ebert
10.00 -10.45 Can Crop Models Capture the effects of Water Stress and Water Logging? Dr David White
10.45 -11.15 MORNING TEA
11.15 -12.00 Proof of Concept: Short Term Forecasting and WUE Peter Timmers
12.00 -12.30 Reflections on the morning session
12.30 -1.30 LUNCH
“National and Industry Overview”
1.30 - 2.15 National Benchmarking on Water Use and Water Use Efficiency. Brett Tucker
2.15 - 3.00 Delivering RWUE through Industry and Government Partnerships. Graeme Milligan
3.00 - 3.30 AFTERNOON TEA
3.30 - 4.15 Can Rural Water Use Efficiency Deliver the Goods for the Australian irrigation industry? Tony Horton
4.15 - 5.00 Reflections on the afternoon session, from a scientist, a farmer and a policy person’s perspective. Major impressions of what you have heard. 5 minutes per person followed by open discussion.
6.00 DINNER (BBQ) at Riverglenn
9.00-9.15 Reflections on Day One Ian Gordon
“From Desktop to Farm”
9.15 - 10.00 Measuring Water on the Farm, a Review of Measurement Methods and Case Studies Paul Dalton
10.00-10.45 Perspective from a Practical Irrigator; Can Irrigation scheduling theory be put into practice? Ian Hayllor
10.45-11.15 MORNING TEA
11.15-12.00 Validation of the PERFECT Water Balance Model Peter Timmers/Mark Littleboy
12.00-12.30 Reflections on the morning session from a scientist, a farmer and a policy person’s perspective. 5 minutes per person followed by open discussion.
12.30-1.30 LUNCH
1.30-3.30 Session 4: Focus on Outcomes
Question 1: “Free for all to identify R&D issues considered important by participants – say 15 minutes.
Question 2: “What potential advantages do you see if the Short Term Climate Forecasting Irrigation Scheduling system were to be implemented? Consider also non irrigation payoffs of short term climate forecasting”
(Possible responses: pesticide spraying, forward selling, saving water)
Question 3: What further research and development needs to be carried out? “What is the best way to progress this idea? Where should this happen?”
Question 4: “Is it possible to confirm the climate-scheduling concept with experimentation? Where? By whom? How should farmers be compensated for allowing the system to be tested on their property? How should the system be implemented?”
Question 5: “Can models help devise new management systems? How do you extend limited experimental evidence to cover wider areas, and other periods of time?”
3.30 CONCLUDES