Australia has an incredibly variable and unpredictable hydroclimate, and while irrigation is designed to reduce risk, significant uncertainty remains in both seasonal water availability (‘allocations’) and irrigation crop water requirements. This paper explores the nature and impacts of...

Regional flood estimation methods are used for estimation of design floods in ungauged catchments, which is required in the design of culverts, small to medium sized bridges, causeways, farm dams, soil conservation works and many other water resources management tasks. in Australia, the regional...

Price determination is essential as it plays a critical role in improving a company’s profitability and market competitiveness. However, this requires the ability to calculate customer demand in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry as the substitution effect exists between multiple...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional economic impacts of a prolongedperiod of recurrent droughts. The model used for analysis is TERM-H2O, a dynamicsuccessor to the bottom-up, comparative static TERM (The Enormous RegionalModel). We concentrate on the regions of the southern...

The prolonged drought from 2006–07 to 2008–09 in south-eastern Australia presented severe difficulties for dry-land and irrigation farmers in the southern Murray-Darling basin. A dynamic multi-regional computable general equilibrium model (TERMH2O) is used to estimate the economy-wide small...

Conditions for the dairy industry in northern Victoria over the past decade have been tough. High prices for feed inputs, especially when combined with low farmgate milk prices, have seen situations where dairy farmers are losing money feeding cows. In this environment, it is natural to consider...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional economic impacts of a prolonged period of recurrent droughts. The model used for analysis is TERM-H2O, a dynamic successor to the bottom-up, comparative static TERM (The Enormous Regional Model). We concentrate on the regions of the southern...

A new era of water scarcity has changed past patterns of feeding dairy cows in northern Victoria. This paper derives a model for estimating least-cost feeding of dairy cows under a range of assumptions regarding prices for irrigation water, hay and feed grain. The cost-minimisation is subject to...