Rob Rendell

Rob Rendell has more than thirty years experience in irrigation, groundwater drainage, salinity management, project management, extension, reclaimed water re-use, practical irrigation farming and farm management, agricultural industry benchmarking and sustainability indicators. He is recognised as a leader in the water sector.
Rob Rendell has been an innovator in many areas, starting with irrigated sunflower production on his family farm in the 1970s and then being involved in the development of laser grading.
In the 1980s, Rob Rendell was a key part of the salinity management planning process which led to todays catchment planning. He developed much of the agricultural industry benchmarking systems in dryland, tomatoes, rice, dairy and more, that developed further in the 90s. Along with this, he was part of the FM500 farm management discussion group.
Rob Rendell has led the development of policy guidelines and practical approaches to the use of land based systems for the application of reclaimed water. These projects have covered every type of irrigation system and every type of irrigated agriculture. The projects have included over thirty sites throughout Victoria and recently New Zealand.
More recently, Rob Rendell has been part of developing processes for managing over-allocated groundwater resources.