The economics and financial benchmarking of Riverland Grape production, and potential benefits of Vitivisor technology: Prepared for Wine Australia and Riverland Wine

This report details some of the contribution of the economics team to the development of Vitivisor, an open-source information, prediction and advisory dashboard platform developed for viticulture in the Riverland. The contribution to the dashboard is not documented in this report per se, and readers are referred to the main report instead. This report provides detail of the background research that went into the work on the dashboard. It includes both our review of secondary and existing information (e.g. farm and grape growing benchmarking and analysis of grape farm data from ATO and other sources); and our primary data investigation of University of Adelaide held irrigator survey data and 25 in-depth grape grower case studies. We also undertook a financial analysis to study the net social benefits to growers from adoption of the platform.