season Outlook Briefings 2025
Murray Irrigation is hosting three Season Outlook Briefings during September 2025.
These events are designed to equip you with valuable insights and resources from industry experts, enabling you to make well-informed decisions for the season ahead. With forecasts indicating a drier season than in previous years, the information provided will be particularly relevant and timely.
As an added bonus, all attendees will be entering the draw to win a delicious dining experience at The Crossing Café, Deniliquin, The Bend, Tocumwal and Club Barham, Barham.
Event details and RSVPs
To RSVP to your chosen meeting, simply click the 'RSVP here' button in the RSVP column. You will be taken to an EventBrite page where you can enter your details and confirm your attendance to your chosen meeting.
Program
We’re thrilled to present an outstanding lineup of guest speakers at our upcoming event including:
- Marianne Graham, a Water Trade and Brokerage Specialist at RuralCo Water, will share her expertise on navigating water markets.
- Shahadat Chowdhury and Priyantha Jayakody from the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water will provide a timely forecast on water allocations.
- Eric Snodgrass, Principal Atmospheric Scientist at Nutrien, will remotely provide a weather forecast specifically focused on the Murray Irrigation footprint.
We will also have Murray Irrigation’s Senior Manager Customer Experience, Josh Bode, deliver a seasonal overview and discuss Water Solutions, the new initiative launched in July 2025.
Speaker profiles
Marianne Graham
Marianne was born in Wagga Wagga. Over her diverse career, Marianne has accumulated a wealth of financial experience as a trader and broker in the volatile electricity markets where her skills in analysis and deep knowledge of supply and demand factors helped her clients make successful decisions. She brings this skill-set with her to the water markets to assist her clients in understanding price drivers, empowering them in their water purchasing or selling strategy.
Eric Snodgrass
Eric Snodgrass is a Sr. Science Fellow for Nutrien Ag Solutions, where he develops predictive, analytical software solutions to manage weather risk for global production agriculture. He provides frequent weather updates that focus on how high-impact weather events influence global agriculture productivity. His current research uses machine learning to better understand field-level weather impacts on yields in the US and to increase confidence in long-range weather prediction. He presents his research as a featured speaker at over 100 conferences annually where he provides logistical guidance and solutions to weather sensitive financial institutions, farmers, commodity traders, and other stakeholders. He was recently awarded the Educator Award in 2023 for Distinguished Service to America’s High Technology Agriculture by the Mid America Croplife Association.
Shahadat Chowdhury
Shahadat Chowdhury is the manager of the team that allocates water in NSW. He has been a senior member of the team for last 8 years. He played a key part in securing water during the tinderbox drought of 2017-2020. Shahadat has been working for the department since 1992, in various roles, assisting water management of NSW. His expertise includes determining water allocation, securing critical water needs, modelling water delivery, simulating irrigation demand, projecting climate change impact and so on. Shahadat is a civil engineer with a Ph D in hydrology from the University of NSW.
Priyantha Jayakody
Priyantha Jayakody is Lead Hydrologist in the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, NSW, with over a decade of experience in the water allocation team. He brings deep expertise in integrating science and policy to support sustainable water management under changing climatic conditions. He holds a PhD in Engineering from Mississippi State University, USA, and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, contributing to advancements in water resource planning and climate resilience.
More information
For more information on the Season Outlook Briefings, or to include any dietary requirements to your RSVP, please contact the Customer Experience team on 1300 138 265 or customersupport@murrayirrigation.com.au.
