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Practical on-farm demonstrations help boost efficiency and sustainability
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017)Protecting Our Chemicals for the Future is a project based in the northern Wet Tropics that works with grower groups to demonstrate the value of best management practices for chemical management on sugarcane farms. -
Practice changes add up to significant efficiency gains
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2016)The Russo family at Isis is seeing big improvements to their harvesting efficiency this season after introducing a number of changes. Childers harvesting contractor Michael Russo is pleased to see big improvements to cane ... -
Pre-emergent herbicide options to help growers overcome diruon restrictions
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)A recent collaborative demonstration—between Sugar Research Australia, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), and Plane Creek Productivity Services—has shown that other pre-emergent herbicide strategies ... -
Pre-treatment of sugar cane : Final report JCU030
(2011)This project developed a customised microwave applicator for the pre-treatment of sugar cane. Three undergraduate Engineering students investigated the optimisation of microwave treatment, mechanical and chemical properties. ... -
Precision Agriculture for the sugarcane industry
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Precision agriculture options for the Australian sugarcane industry
(2007)Precision agriculture (PA) has been embraced in other Australian agricultural industries. With the increase in adoption rates of new farming system principles including controlled traffic within the sugarcane industry, ... -
Precision agriculture; an avenue for profitable innovation in the Australian sugar industry, or expensive technology we can do without? : SRDC Final report CSE018
(2007)Precision Agriculture (PA) is an all-encompassing term given to a suite of technologies which promote improved management of agricultural production through recognition that the potential productivity of agricultural land ... -
Precision farming with controlled traffic and GPS guidance system : SRA Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2007)After working with the Central Region new farming system grower group we decided to take the system to the next level and implement GPS guidance and precision. Our aim was to overcome the problems associated with converting ... -
Prediction and management of acidity production and export from acid sulphate soils used for sugar production final report SRDC Project DNR004
(2001)The experimental design of this project successfully enabled runoff and groundwater drainage flow components to be distinguished in a cane-farming context at Pimpama, southeast Queensland. The majority of acidity exported ... -
Preliminary assessment of the impact of Cyclone Yasi and weather conditions from early 2010 on the 2011 sugarcane crop in North to Central Queensland
(2011)An assessment of the impacts of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi and poor weather conditions prevailing since early 2010 (including previous cyclones) on the 2011 sugarcane crop was made from 18 February 2011 to 4 March 2011 ... -
Preliminary investigations on the feasibility of co-production of cane pulp and raw sugar
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 1990)Laboratory-scale mechanical refiners were used to prepare four varieties of sugar cane for depithing, and for the production of refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) and chemi-mechanical pulp (CMP) from depithed canes and from ... -
Preparedness for borer incursion : SRDC final report BSS249
(BSES, 2003)Moth borers are the most devastating pests of graminaceous plants, including sugarcane, in the world. Australia is so far free of all the major borer species, but several species occur in countries close to Australia, ... -
Preparing Australian agricutlure for a digital future
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Preparing the Australian sugar industry for exotic disease threats: final report 2009/033
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2015)Previous field resistance trial data for downy mildew, Ramu stunt and Sesamia grisescens collected in PNG since the mid-1980s were accessed, analysed and information used as a foundation for project field resistance screening ... -
Preparing the Sugar Industry for Climate Change and Emissions Trading Workshop
(2009)This document provides a brief summary of key points arising from a climate change workshop held in Brisbane on June 19, 2009. -
Presenting the latest milling research to stakeholders
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017)SRA and QUT recently worked together to provide a series of research updates for the milling sector across the Australian industry. -
Procedures for the establishment and operation of approved seed plots: fourth edition 2013
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)Hot-water treatment of sugarcane cuttings (stalks or stalk pieces) to control the spread of diseases and pests was pioneered in Australia. Hot-water treatment can reduce the risk of cuttings being infected with ratoon ... -
Product and profit; delivering precision to users of precision agriculture in the Australian sugar industry; yield monitoring : Final report 2014/028
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017)The ability to collect robust yield data has been demonstrated in a previous SRA-funded project CSE022 (=2008/022) across a range of different yield sensing options. This same project documented a set of procedures and ... -
Production and evaluation of SCMV resistant transgenic sugarcane pests derived from transformed callus : SRDC final report BS94S
(1997)We have successfully demonstrated that sugarcane can be genetically engineered for resistance to sugarcane mosaic virus, using the coat protein gene of the virus to mediate resistance. At present the frequency of plants ... -
Production of an automated cane billet sampler for research trials : SRDC final report BSS156
(2000)Sugarcane breeding and research programs currently rely on hand-cut sound whole-stalk samples for determination of commercial cane sugar (CCS) and other quality components. These samples of sugarcane are free from extraneous ...