The purpose of the Innovation Grants is to initiate projects in the South East to improve irrigation water use efficiency. The innovation should promote profitable irrigation practice and sustainable resource management.
The successful projects for 2006-07 are shown below:

Project Title	Supporting group(s)	Location
Effect of Partial Rootzone Drying on vineyard root zone salinity	Limestone Coast Irrigators Association, Padthaway Grape Growers	Stonehaven Vineyard Padthaway
Determining irrigation water requirements with pivot downtubes to maximise lucerne seed and hay production ina system with a limted volume of supply	Lucerne Australia	Hundred of Pendleton, Tatiara PWA
Flood irrigation, increasing the size of delivery from channels	Mid South East Irrigators Association	Hundred of Ross
On line irrigation scheduling and recording	Horizon Farming, Dairy High Production Focus Group	Mount Schank
Installation of continuous logging soil moisture monitoring equipment to be remotely monitored with increased frequency, to optimise irrigation scheduling on a soil type and per segment basis under centre pivot irrigation	SE Diary Committee, Horizon Farming, Dairy High Production Focus Group	Hundred of Caroline

The successful projects for 2007-08 are shown below: