3 Years of Irrigated Leucaena
3 Years of Irrigated Leucaena - Santos - The leucaena Network
3 Years of Irrigated Leucaena - Santos - The leucaena Network
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3 <strong>Years</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Irrigated</strong> <strong>Leucaena</strong><br />
Lessons Learned
Positive Coexistence with Agriculture<br />
• Establish and develop respectful, mutually<br />
beneficial relationships with our stakeholders and<br />
particularly Landholders<br />
• Operate within strict environmental management<br />
and regulatory guidelines<br />
• CSG water management without environmental<br />
impact<br />
• Post –CSG irrigation forage crop asset and<br />
productivity value higher than pre-irrigation
Santos commitment to leucaena<br />
• Working with and supporting farming families in<br />
our GLNG footprint area and beyond who have<br />
made a commitment to leucaena<br />
• By end 2014 we expect to have 2900 ha treated<br />
CS water irrigation <strong>of</strong> which 1500 ha is<br />
leucaena, 1275 ha Chinchilla White Gum and<br />
about 100 ha lucerne on our own and<br />
collaborating landholder land<br />
• <strong>Leucaena</strong> is able to respond to optimal irrigation<br />
and is also performs well under dryland<br />
conditions – we live in an environment <strong>of</strong><br />
variable treated CS water supply
Santos support for leucaena<br />
• Field days and tours <strong>of</strong> our Springwater treated CSG water<br />
irrigated farming systems involving at least 800 people since May<br />
2009<br />
• Sponsoring at least 50 existing and potential leucaena producers<br />
through the UQ managed leucaena courses<br />
• Supporting <strong>Leucaena</strong> Network<br />
• Undertaking industry significant R&D activities investigating:<br />
1. water use potential <strong>of</strong> major regional forage systems including<br />
leucaena and Rhodes with and without winter forage cropping<br />
2. redefinition <strong>of</strong> salinity tolerance thresholds including leucaena<br />
3. water balance <strong>of</strong> leucaena / Rhodes and other grass systems in<br />
dryland and irrigated situations<br />
4. Demonstrating managed, commercial leucaena systems have<br />
negligible environmental risk<br />
5. Demonstrating CS water irrigation has no impact on catchment<br />
surface water and groundwater quality<br />
4 04/04/2013
5 04/04/2013
Planting at Mt Hope Feb 2013<br />
6 04/04/2013
Planting pasture IR4<br />
7 04/04/2013
Planting Pasture IR4<br />
8 04/04/2013
Centre Pivot Irrigators<br />
9 04/04/2013
Deep Ripping IR7 prior to drip<br />
installation<br />
10 04/04/2013
Laying Drip Tube – 1m laterals<br />
11 04/04/2013
Mt Hope 80cm row spacing<br />
12 04/04/2013
Mt Hope – March 2013<br />
13 04/04/2013
Mt Hope March 2013<br />
14 04/04/2013
IR7 March 2013<br />
15 04/04/2013
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