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Kovacich Family focusing on soil health profitability, technology and sustainability
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2020)Kovacich Family focusing on soil health profitability, technology and sustainability -
Land and Water Management Plan drafting tools for the Farming Management System framework
(2005)During the development of the Sugar FMS program it became apparent that Queensland Government requirements for Land and Water Management Plans were becoming an increasingly significant business concern for many cane growers. ... -
Leading the charge on efficient & sustainable production
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017)Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have used a scale-model of a wet scrubber to provide valuable information for sugar millers on how this piece of milling equipment functions � and to recommend possible ... -
Leaf scald 1
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Leaf sucrose: The link to diseases, physiological disorders such as YCS and sugarcane productivity : final report 2015/016
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2020)Yellow canopy syndrome (YCS) is a physiological disorder expressing as yellowing of the mid-canopy. Rapid growth following a stress period where growth rate of the top internodes has been compromised creates a supply demand ... -
Learning from the overseas experience
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2016)SRA has approved funding for this project to commence in the latter half of 2015, which will look to bring some of the efficiencies of overseas milling operations to benefit Australian factories. -
Legumes : the pros and cons
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)As seen in the previous article, ‘Planning the summer fallow’, in this edition, fallow legumes can improve cane yields and soil health. This handy table helps to compare and evaluate the different types of legumes available ... -
Legumes improving soil health and farm profitability
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2019)Legumes improving soil health and farm profitability -
Lessons from across Bass Strait drive sustainable production
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2019)Lessons from across Bass Strait drive sustainable production -
Lessons from South African approach to boosting farm productivity
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017)The South African sugarcane industry has a diverse mix of farmers from small holders to large scale commercial growers with the largest growing around 4000 hectares. SRA Executive Manager Communications, Brad Pfeffer, ... -
Levelling delivers major productivity boost in the Wet Tropics
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017)Far North Queensland sugarcane grower Paul Gregory has seen an impressive productivity and profitability response by laser levelling and now says it will be part and parcel of his farming operation. -
Levelling trial shows 20 percent improvement to net return
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2018)Glen Anderson already knows how important precise drainage is to his productivity, but work on an SRA-funded project run by MSF Sugar is providing eye-opening numbers for the impact on his bottom line. -
Levelling trial shows 20 percent improvement to net return
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2018)Glen Anderson already knows how important precise drainage is to his productivity, but work on an SRA-funded project run by MSF Sugar is providing eye-opening numbers for the impact on his bottom line. By Brad Pfeffer -
Lifting the viability of the Mossman Sugar Industry by improving the cane supply : Final report MCB001
(2003)The project was initiated to investigate techniques to improve the long-term viability of the Mossman sugar-producing area through better harvesting techniques. The overall aim was to dovetail with previous SRDC-funded ... -
Lightweight elevator and advanced secondary cleaning system for cane harvesters : SRDC Final report BS210S
(2001)The goal of this project was the development of a prototype lightweight harvester elevator and integrated secondary cleaning system. The goal was commercially driven and proposed transfer and adaptation of high-speed ... -
Literature review of methods of improving the germination of sugarcane : SRDC final report BSS208
(2000)Sugarcane is propagated from vegetative cuttings of the stalk (setts or billets). The cuttings can be planted by hand or through mechanical whole-stalk or billet planters. Billet planters have given variable results ... -
Local data gives the full picture on water quality
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2019)Local data gives the full picture on water quality -
Local industries to drive the improvement of harvesting practices
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)Each year the Australian sugar industry incurs avoidable cane losses during the harvesting process. Two new Regional Applied Research (RAR) projects, funded by SRA and led by productivity services groups with their local ... -
Long term focus on improvement in the Wet Tropics
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2016)Mossman farmer Drew Watson says the well-known Tully saying 'no drain, no cane' has strong application in the Wet Tropics and drainage improvement should be one of the first steps in improving farm efficiency. -
Long-term assessment of fallow crops shows potential for cash legumes
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017)A long-term research project has improved the understanding of fallow cash crops in the sugarcane farming system in the Burdekin.