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Newsletter - Climate Ready Horticulture

A quarterly e-newsletter for horticulturalists summarising the state of the climate drivers and the forecast for the coming season, latest research, case studies and on farm management options to inform adaptation to climate challenges.

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In this Summer 2011 issue the Carbon Farming Initiative is launched, La Nina likely to last until the end of summer, clean fuel revs up energy efficiencies, advances in evapotransipration and satellite imagery for irrigation scheduling and case studies of crop diversification.

The carbon tax heads up this Spring 2011 issue. Other articles include La Nina could develop again, save $'000's on cool room costs, record warmth, irrigation and pump efficiency case studies and lessons from across the Tasman.

The Winter 2011 issue explains that no surprises are expected during winter but growers are encouraged to prepare for the next irrigation season, get to know the BoM site and there's a new sun burn protection manual out for growers.

The floods featured in this Autumn 2011 issue, together with articles on soil health, nitrogen fertilizer use and precision agriculture.

The Summer 2010 issue herald in the drought braking and discussed weather forecasting. The Climatedogs were introduced, greenhouse gas emissions were explained and a report on alternative crops was tabled.

This Spring 2010 issue warns of a La Nina developing. Water and weather feature strongly in this issue. The Government's climate change policy also features.

In this Winter 2010 edition we summarise the recently released CSIRO/Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) report, State of the Climate, which concludes that climate change is “real”. And, in keeping with the theme of “erratic” weather, we also review a BoM report which explains the “drivers” behind the November 2009 heatwave.

The first edition of Climate ready Horticulture (Autumn 2010)introduced the climate drivers, farming with climate change and carbon farming. A viticulture report outlines lessons learnt from the 2009 summer heatwave.

In this autumn 2012 edition there is hope that La Nina is neutralising, while the outlook for next season’s water allocations is for 100 per cent by February 2013. There is an interesting report out from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) that explains what the climate drivers were doing during Australia’s wettest two-year period on record, as well as case studies explaining how growers are reducing waste and saving money by checking their energy costs in protected cropping and nursery enterprises.

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