We are trying to channel rainfall from the inter row to the seeded row in dryland farming systems in Western Australia. In order to do this we have created inter-row hills to run water into the seeded furrow. The efficiency of collecting water is low and we are wondering if you can treat the hills inexpensively to get more efficient runoff into the furrows? We are currently trying polymers to improve runoff but with mixed success. Details of this work are given in Barrett-Lennard et al. 2021 (micro water harvesting........)
Hi Dave
Mike Bolland tried several methods of water harvesting at Salmon Gums RS about 40 years ago. There was several simple ways but maybe linked to older methods of sowing than today. Knowing Mike its probably published! Roger Feltcher was manager there in those days maybe he's not around these days. However Mike is still going and maybe able to be contacted.
All going well. cheers
Hi Ross
You are the first person to answer - greatly appreciated. I have just found a reference to this work but not the actual document. Can you email me Mikes address ?
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