Industry leaders collaborate to promote sugarcane imidacloprid stewardship program

SRA has worked with harvesting groups across the industry on 43 demonstration trials in 2017, with 60 more planned to follow in 2018. Tully grower Chris Condon and his group were one participant.

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Modification of the traditional nutrient management guidelines for sugarcane production in Australia has been in progress for the past 10 years. The need for change occurred with a realisation that nutrient management ...

The SRA Plant Breeding Program in the Central region targets the needs of the Plane Creek, Mackay and Proserpine sugar industries.

Biosecurity is the protection of the Australian Sugar Industry from infectious diseases, pests and other biological threats. It is achieved through systems that aim to prevent pest and disease introduction or spread, ...

The regulation around the movement of sugarcane machinery has changed with the implementation of the Biosecurity Act 2014 and Biosecurity Regulation 2016. In order to move machinery across sugarcane biosecurity ...

Yellow Canopy Syndrome (YCS) is a newly identified condition impacting sugarcane crops in north Queensland.

Fiji leaf gall (FLG) has caused major disease epidemics in the Australian sugarcane industry. The most severe epidemic occurred in the 1970-1980 period in the Bundaberg region when the susceptible variety NCo310 was widely grown.

The SRA Plant Breeding Program in the Herbert region targets the needs of the local sugar industry through the optimised selection and release of more productive and disease-resistant varieties.