The Vegetable Carbon Calculator is a free tool that allows you to develop a carbon footprint of a vegetable farming operation. The tool was developed as part of a HAL project (VG09187), funded by Australian Vegetable Growers through HAL with support from Houston’s Farms (Tasmania) and Woolworths. The tool provides a framework and baseline data [...]
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The Victorian DPI, NSW DPI and the Bureau of Meteorology have developed a series of videos that explain how global climate processes vary their behaviour, potentially resulting in wetter or dryer seasons. Climate dogs video series show, in an entertaining way, how climate drivers work by herding rain towards or away from NSW and Victoria. The five [...]
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SILO is a database of about 120 years of continuous daily weather records for Australia, which includes: Rainfall Temperatures (minimum and maximum) Radiation Evaporation Vapour pressure The records are based mainly on observed data, with interpolation where there are data gaps. SILO data is up-to-date (near real time), in formats useful for farmers, researchers and [...]
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