About Hydrozone

David Furphy

David Furphy is also Director of Hydrozone Pty Ltd. With his background in irrigated agriculture, he brings knowledge and experience in many types of irrigation and many aspects of growing crops with scarce and valuable water.

David has formal qualifications in Rural Science and Financial Management from University of New England, Armidale. In the 90's he worked with the South Australian Department of Agriculture, including a period with the Irrigated Crop Management Service. This team developed and commercialised a widely used and respected approach to water management on farms that integrated scientific and practical knowledge in soils, irrigation systems and scheduling.

Taking an integrated & holistic approach to irrigated enterprises has been David's passion. He has delivered advice and training in business planning to managers of irrigated enterprises growing fruit, vegetables, pasture, and other crops and livestock.

He has experience in many types of irrigation from drip irrigation in vegetables in North Queensland, large scale spray irrigated cropping in Western NSW, sprinklers in the orchards of South Australia's Riverland and sophisticated pasture irrigation in the Goulburn Valley.

David owns an irrigated farm on the Broken River near Shepparton, Victoria. From there and in Melbourne he handles field work and report preparation along with research and development work required to keep Hydrozone at the leading edge of water management for urban irrigators.

IAA LogoDavid is a member of the Irrigation Association of Australia and the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology.

David Furphy