The inland wine regions, represented by Riverina Wine Grapes Marketing Board, Murray Valley Wine Growers Inc and Riverland Wine, supported by the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) and Wine Australia, would like to hear from you about your current wine-grape irrigation practices. This is an opportunity for you to identify the challenges facing the industry and be involved in determining practical strategies to improve water use efficiency and profitability. The survey's primary purpose is to help inform the AWRI in the design and delivery of a range of extension and support services for wine-grape growers, in collaboration with the inland wine region and funded by Wine Australia. Your responses will be presented without identifying information in the survey results.
 
We would appreciate 20 minutes of your time to answer the following questions. 
 
By completing this survey, you will have an opportunity to win a Woolworths, Coles or Aldi voucher to the value of $75.
  • If you have multiple vineyards, please focus on the main vineyard holding property when answering the survey.
  • Unless otherwise specified your responses should relate to the 2019 – 2020 growing season only.
If you have any questions regarding the survey or purpose please contact Con Simos - con.simos@awri.com.au or 0448889432.
 

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* 1. What is your age group?

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* 2. Where are you located?

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* 3. What are your current sources of income? Please specify as a percentage

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* 4. In the last five years would you say your vineyard area (ha) has:

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* 5. Where do you think your business will be in five years’ time?

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* 6. Have you made capital or other investments in the last five years? (Select all that apply)

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* 7. Are you planning to make or continue capital or other investments in the next five years? (Select all that apply)

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* 8. Please describe the size of block(s)/patch(es) (as ha) that make up your main vineyard holding/property
[questions 8-11 are linked, if you have multiple block(s)/patch(es) of the same variety in your main vineyard, please aggregate the data].

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* 9. Please state the total tonnage (as tonnes) harvested in 2020 for the block(s)/patch(es) (tonnage) specified above

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* 10. Please describe the water usage in 2019/2020 (ML/ha) for the block(s)/patch(es) (ha) specified above that make up your main vineyard holding/property

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* 11. Please describe your main soil type in each block/patch (ha) specified above that make up your main vineyard holding/property (e.g. sand, sandy loam, clay, heavy river soil)

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* 12. Have you performed any soil remediation in the last five years on your main vineyard holding/property? (Select all that apply)

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* 13. Are you planning any soil remediation in the next five years on your main property?

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* 14. Where does your irrigation water come from?

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* 15. Please provide water authority % (if supplied by more than one)

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* 16. In the 2019/2020 growing season, did you give the crop its full water requirement?

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* 17. Do you have an on-farm water storage dam on your main property?

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* 18. How is your water applied on your main property?

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* 19. When was your main vineyard irrigation system installed? Please specify as a percentage.

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* 20. Have you made any upgrades since the current system was installed? (Select all that apply)

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* 21. Can you vary irrigation application rates between different varieties/blocks/patches to irrigate at different times?

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* 22. What is the maximum area of your main vineyard you can irrigate at any one time?

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* 23. Who designed your current irrigation system on your main property?

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* 24. Are you satisfied with the irrigation design?

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* 25. Was a soil survey completed prior to the irrigation design?

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* 26. If yes, was the results of the soil survey incorporated into the irrigation design?

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* 27. How do you currently make your irrigation scheduling decisions? (Select all that apply)

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* 28. How are you receiving your soil water monitoring data? (Select all that apply)

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* 29. Have you installed any irrigation technology in the past that you no longer use?

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* 30. Do you monitor and record how much water you use?

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* 31. Do you use any other technology to evaluate the performance of your irrigation system on your main vineyard?

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* 32. Do you carry out any of the following? If so, how often?

  Never Regularly Periodically as required Yearly service Every two years
Checking pressures at different points throughout system
Checking flowrates
Checking distribution uniformity at different points in the vineyard
Perform pump maintenance

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* 33. What routine maintenance do you undertake on your irrigation system? (Select all that apply)

  None Regularly Periodically as required Yearly service Every two years
Flushing driplines
Flushing mains/ submains
Injecting with chlorine
Injecting with hydrogen peroxide 
Injecting with acid
Cleaning filters, backflush/replace

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* 34. Do you have any other comments that you would like to share?

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* 35. Would you like us to send you a summary of the collated responses to the survey?

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* 36. Please provide your contact details if you wish, and you will have an opportunity to win a Woolworths, Coles or Aldi voucher to the value of $75.

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