PHOTO: The Trangie-Never Irrigation Scheme. Image: Trangie-Nevertire Co-operative Limited.
They so often exist in tension with each other, but a Trangie farmer has created a system which benefits both crops and the environment.
Tony Quigley’s leadership in developing the highly efficient, spectacularly clever Trangie-Nevertire Irrigation Scheme has caught the attention of the leaders of the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA), who invited him to talk to industry leaders from all over Australia about the scheme at the River Reflections conference in Narrabri.
“I talked about the modernisation of the Trangie-Nevertire Irrigation Scheme and the increased water efficiency that has achieved, the water savings that meant water had gone back to the Commonwealth – water that they have now gone on to use in the Macquarie Valley,” Quigley told the Western Plains App…