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Darling Irrigation's successful workshop on the benefits of drip irrigation

Drip irrigation and its possibilities was the topic of the day at a recent drip irrigation workshop.

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Above (l-r): Irrigations Advisory Officer Garry Giddings, Stewart Crawford ‘Quandong’ Narromine, Jerrod Shields of Darling Irrigation Narromine and Netafim NSW State Sales Manager Wayne Ingram.

Effective use of drip irrigation technologies for for Westwood provides results

We followed Neil Mill from Westwood Central NSW during a recent farm walk to look at how he is managing to produce results with drip irrigation.

Neil lives and farms the ‘Westwood’ aggregation approximately 20km north west of Narromine in Central West NSW

Neil operates mixed cropping farm with a combination of dryland and irrigated winter crops, in a normal year Neil irrigates summer crops from 2 bores and the Budda Lake Scheme supply. In 2009 he planted 100ha of cotton and retained sufficient water for 40ha of young citrus. Usually with schemes operating he would plant approximately 500ha of summer crops.

Design, supply and installation of supply channels and Linear Move irrigators

Installation of supply channels and Linear Move irrigators

Darling Irrigation were commissioned to undertake the design, supply and installation of supply channels and Linear Move irrigators converting flood irrigation to overhead sprays over 750 acres of summer crop area.

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Above: Two End feed machines operating side by side with self cleaning floating suction screens providing the water intake for each machine. Right: The Rainger Ditch feed cart and Linear control panel exclusive to Valley.

Coonabarabran Bowling Club

Stormwater harvesting and irrigation system

With the assistance of a federal government grant, in June 2008 we installed a fully automatic irrigation system for 3 bowling greens and all surrounding areas.

Above pictured at the official opening of the Coonabarabran Bowling Club’s new recycled watering system (l-r): Warrumbungle Shire general manager, Mr Bob Geraghty; representatives of Darling Irrigation, Jerrod Shields and Lee Simpson; Ted Spackman, Jakki Brady; greenkeeper, Barry Wilkinson; John Franklin; club president, Des White; Peter Sweeney; John Lowrie.

Broken Hill City Council – stormwater capture & reuse

Broken Hill City Council commissioned Darling Irrigation via a tender process to construct a Stormwater capture and re-use project at O’Neill Playing fields and AJ Keast Park. Both areas were traditionally irrigated with manually changed impact sprays, this was an inefficient use of water and very time consuming. It took about 10 hours per week voluntary labour to irrigate the fields. Darling Irrigation had 7 staff on site, over the period of 2 months (nearing completion) working 12 days on 4 days off due to the long distances involved. Local contractors were employed to complete electrical works, surveying works, pour concrete, cart spoil, and for wet hire of plant.

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