NRM on Farms Newsletter - August 2016

Here’s the latest roundup of information about natural resource management relevant to agriculture. Items of interest in this newsletter include:

• Strong negative Indian Ocean Dipole likely to last until the end of Spring.
• If La Nina eventuates it will probably be weak/short-lived.
• In some areas the last frost is now four weeks later than in the 1960s.
• Interesting research on projected 2030 wheat yields, and adaptation enablers and constraints in broadacre cropping.
• Comments invited on multi-peril crop insurance, water licensing, water supply, and agricultural regulation.

And plenty of other interesting and useful NRM facts, figures and ideas.