Murray Irrigators
Home >> Murray IrrigatorsThe Murray Irrigators Farming Support Group Is an information and technology based farming support group for the southern Murray Darling basin. Formed in 2008 to help bridge the gap and create productive partnerships between the farming community, industry, government and non-government organisations.
Tuesday 14th December I attended the Shepparton Meeting for the Draft Plan the meeting was hosted by the basin authority and was addressed by chairman Craig Knowles and federal Water Minister Tony Burke. It was part of the 20 weeks of consultation following the release of the draft plan to boost environmental flows down the river system by 2750 gigalitres.
Richard Anderson, from the Victorian Farmers Federation, said the VFF did not support the Murray-Darling plan in its current form. ''What you're looking for as a community and what our towns are looking for is certainty. And I don't see any certainty in what we've got on the plate at the moment,'' he said.
Our rural communities are passionate about water, and they want a basin plan and a ''say'' about it.
SMALL towns in northern Victoria could be turned into ''welfare basket cases'' by the Murray-Darling Basin plan, with the loss of irrigation water causing business closures, job losses and a reduced need for services, the community meeting in Shepparton was told yesterday. Wendy Buck, Facilitator
Murray Irrigators presented their submission into the impact of the proposed Murray-Darling Basin Plan on regional communities to the federal parliamentary inquiry, headed by independent MP Tony Windsor.
Murray Irrigators has made a submission on the socio-economic impact of proposed Murray Darling Basin Authority’s Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan on regional communities.
Murray Irrigators hosted a forum on Adapting Farming Practices to Climate Change and gave evidence to the inquiry into Australian Farmers and Climate Change by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Primary Industries and Resources at a public hearing in Melbourne on the 3rd of September 2009..
Murray Irrigators hosts field days to showcase results farmers are having with innovative techniques to irrigation and crop production.
Murray Irrigators sponsors the Water Technology Cluster Irrigation Expo 18th & 19th May 2011. "showcasing irrigation innovation"
Contact Wendy; info@murrayirrigators.com.au - www.murrayirrigators.com.au
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