This video provides practical grower information about post-harvest irrigation management to optimise carbohydrate accumulation in vines and information about nutrition management and rootzone salinity management.

This video provides information about managing the conversion from furrow, overhead or under-vine irrigation to drip irrigation. Growers will learn when is the best time to convert, the economics of conversion, how to conduct outine maintenance and cleaning of the drip system and how to approach scheduling irrigation under the new system.

This video deals with managing the use of water of differing salinities to irrigate vines for sustainable productive purposes. Growers will learn how to sustainably manage sodic soils and the types of ameliorants that many be used to help.

This video will provide an update on current scientific thinking in this area, and include some 'practical' insights about varietal and rootstock water use, relevant to each region. It will also discuss drought tolerance of different varieties and rootstocks within key regions of Australia.

This topic provides information on the relationships between yield and water . Growers will receive an update on current scientific thinking and 'practical' insights relevant to their region about relationships between irrigation inputs and wine grape productivity, including influences on berry/wine quality.

This module will provide growers with the best possible projections of water allocation scenarios in their particular region in 2008/09. This module will discuss issues around likely climate projections in the future. Findings from the CSIRO Sustainable Yields project (2030 projections in MDB) under climate change scenarios will be provided in brief.

This module will present the processes used to make water allocation decisions. Growers will get an overview of how the Murray Darling Basin system functions. They will also gain an insight into key factors that influence the announcement of water allocations in each region including permanent and temporary water trade. Information about what influences the water market will also be discussed.

This video will adapt the current Water Purchase and Water Budget tools used in stage 1 of this Project within the Riverina wine grape growing region, and tailor it to be used by other regions. A technical user manual will be provided which can accompany the current excel spreadsheets, so that others can use the water purchase and budget tools in the future.

This module will give growers a more advanced understanding of how grapevines function physiologically during periods of hot weather (>35oC) and prolonged drought conditions so they can amend their growing practices to manage production more favourably.

Presented by Michael Traught
Lancare, Auckland

Presented by Sonja Needs
PhD University of Melbourne