Climate Change Impacts on Crop Irrigation Requirements Across the Murray-Darling Basin

Explore how climate change will impact irrigation requirements for crops across Australia's Murray-Darling Basin in this comprehensive webinar. Discover the challenges facing irrigated farming as the region experiences a warmer and drier climate, with decreasing water supply and rising irrigation demand. Learn from expert panelists who are modeling future irrigation needs for key crops under various climate change scenarios through a One Basin CRC funded project. Examine how existing climate, soil, and crop data can calculate potential changes in irrigation demand, understand how crop water requirements might evolve over the mid to long-term, and explore initiatives designed to help farmers and irrigation suppliers plan for a future with higher temperatures and reduced water availability. Gain insights from irrigator interviews, understand evapotranspiration processes, analyze shared socioeconomic pathways, review precipitation changes in study areas, and examine specific irrigation projections for the Murrumbidgee region. Access practical knowledge essential for medium to long-term agricultural planning and making informed decisions about crop choices and water sourcing in Australia's most important agricultural basin.