Events
Metering Information Session
The NSW Government session will cover key information to help you get measurement ready. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions
to a panel from the department's Water division and NRAR.
Trade stalls will be held after the information session so you can meet and connect with metering suppliers, installers and key department
staff from the floodplain harvesting licencing and approvals team.
Moree
Thursday, 11 March
10:00am – 1:30pm
Max Theatre, Level 1/30 Heber St, Moree
Register
to attend this session
FPH consultation
NSW Department are holding face-to-face consultation on proposed rules for floodplain harvesting in the Gwydir Valley for the regulated and
unregulated water sources, in Moree on Wednesday 24th February and Thursday 25th February. Due to COVID safe restrictions you must
register. Visit the Department website below.
We encourage all members and associated agricultural businesses to attend to hear about this historic reform and how NSW intends to manage
it into the future. Implementing floodplain harvesting will be a significant regulatory shift for our industry and will have
community impacts, ad water users adjust to new rules.
NDrip Field day
There will be an NDrip field day in Wee Waa, on Thursday 28th January from 10:00 to 11:00am. If you are interested in looking at this gravity powered micro-irrigation system, Please RSVP to peter.birch@elders.com or phone 0428.669.157
Read MoreGVIA Field DAY
GVIA digital technologies and automated Irrigation field day is being held on Wednesday 10th February 2021. Our Covid-19 plan required participants to register to attend. Buses will be leaving Reynolds Fogarty at 7:30am please also register for this.
Read MoreDAMAGE FERAL PIGS DO TO YOUR HIP POCKET
Are you aware of pig damage in your crops or to livestock enterprises, but find it difficult to quantify the extent of the damage, and what
that equates to in dollar terms?
To answer this question, Local Land Services has worked with AgEcon to undertake a study that puts
figures on the real cost of feral pigs on several different enterprises and to compare control options.
Join the LLS online for our first webinar back for 2021. Register here.
When
11 Feb 2021 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dont Forget the GVIA has funds available to support producers in our region with the control of feral pigs. For more information
contact the office; 02 67521399
Storage Meter Courses
Irrigation Australia has announced the first dates for the NSW subsidised storage meter installation and validation courses. To ensure
you have a compliant storage meter with the NSW Floodplain Harvesting Measurement Policy, your storage meter must be inspected and or new
approved meter, installed by someone that has completed this course.
There is an information session being held for installers and suppliers to learn more on Thursday, 22 October 2020 10:30am-12:30pm and
you need to register online at https://kapara.rdbk.com.au/landers/b01851.html
For more information visit Irrigation Australia
website or review the Healthy Floodplains Measurement
page.
Have your Say - Gwydir Regional Water Strategy
The NSW Government released their 20- 40-year draft Gwydir Regional Water Strategy to look at how to improve regional water security, build
resilience and stronger communities and environments. It is about how to best manage the challenges that are facing the Gwydir region. This
strategy looks at historical and a worst case scenario of climatic sequence as part of the assessment of challenges that may face the
region. The strategy provides a long list of proposed projects, both infrastructure, rules-based, research and review and skills
orientated, to be considered by the community. These should be reviewed by the community as a chance to have a say on
future investment in the region.
There is a live webinar on 15 October 2020 and face-to-face meetings in Moree on 22 October 2020.
GVIA Irrigation Field Day
Save the Date: The GVIA will host the Smarter Irrigation for Profit 2 field day on Wednesday the 10th of February 2021. We will be having the field day at Keytah, where several of our Smarter Irrigation researchers and partners will be talking about new technology, smart sensing and remote control. Follow the link to the website for more information on Smarter irrigation for Profit 2
Read MoreAnnual General Meeting notice
The Gwydir Valley Irrigators Association will host an online Annual General Meeting on 30th September 2020, starting at 10am. The AGM will be followed by a General Meeting until 12pm. The location will be the GVIA office, 100 Balo Street Moree. Our COVID Safe Plan restricts the number of attendees and as a result, we will be providing an online option via Microsoft Teams for video conferencing or dial in. Members must RSVP to either secure a seat in the office or receive their personal conference link. Nominations for the GVIA Committee are being received, please see the link below to access the nomination form. All financial members as of June 2020 are eligible to nominate.
Read MoreFPH Measurement Webinar
The NSW Government has launched the Floodplain Harvesting Measurement Policy 2020 for the northern Murray–Darling Basin - Wednesday,
19 August 2020, 10:30am - 12:30pm.
The policy applies to landholders in the northern Murray–Darling Basin who will receive a floodplain harvesting water-access license under
the NSW Floodplain Harvesting Policy (2018) in 2021 and will allow water harvested from northern Basin floodplains to be accurately
and reliably measured for the first time.
The NSW Floodplain Harvesting Measurement Policy will be rolled out in stages and water users will be required to comply with the floodplain
harvesting measurement rules by July 2021 or July 2022, depending on their onsite storage capacity.