Knowledge and technology transfer and adoption

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Implementing methods for wider industry adoption : SRDC final report CSE009
(2007) Jakku, E; Everingham, Y; Inman-Bamber, G; Thorburn, P
Many of the challenges that the sugarcane industry faces are complex systems issues and R&D addressing these issues requires the active participation of industry stakeholders. A deeper understanding of processes that contribute to effective engagement between researchers and end-users is therefore essential to deal with the ongoing and evolving complexities of sugarcane systems. Without this knowledge, millions of dollars of R&D investment will be wasted and immeasurable environmental, social and economic benefits will be lost. The framework developed in this project has the potential to improve the way in which participatory research and technology development are conducted. However, in order to realise these impacts, the framework needs to be further developed to more clearly guide interactions between scientists, extension officers and farmers. Building capacity within the industry to implement learnings from this framework could help maximise the impact of complex technologies in the Australian sugarcane industry. This will assist the industry to profit rather than suffer from the complex challenges that it faces.
Facilitating the commercialisation of products from GM sugarcane : communications plan
(2007)
This project addresses the knowledge gap of how management affects soil biological processes. This is important because management has to maximise soil health and nutrient relations. Knowledge of soil biology in context of management strategies will allow optimising economic and environmental outcomes for the sugar industry. The project assessed how management options of the ‘new sugarcane farming system’ (reduced tillage, legume break crop, trash blanketing, and reduced nitrogen (N) fertiliser application), impact soil biology. We examined the functional groups and activity of soil microbes in context of soil N availability and gaseous emissions. Sugarcane soils in North and Southern Queensland, including the Yield Decline Joint Venture site in Ingham and two commercial farms with contrasting management practices in Bundaberg, were used for this research. A suite of well established and new methods were applied to analyse soil biological processes. A focus on soil microbiological processes is justified because microbes are the main drivers of N turnover in soil. Microbes supply N to crops by breaking down complex organic matter and soil-bound N, but also c This document has been developed by the Sugarcane Gene Technology Group (GTG) with assistance from Cox Inall Communications. The document provides a five year Strategic overview to guide communications across the sugar industry supply chain while GM cane technology is being developed for commercialisation. The document also provides a detailed two year Communications Plan to guide communications to engage stakeholders and raise industry awareness of GM issues and industry capacity to support GM cane commercialisation. The Sugarcane GTG is mindful of the commercialisation issues facing other agricultural industries, in particular the grains industry, and of the work of the Primary Industries Ministerial Council (PMIC) as it works towards facilitating a framework to enable commercialisation of products from GM technologies. There is a clear need for the establishment of a framework on an industry-by-industry basis. The Sugarcane GTG is working to develop such a framework for the sugar industry, and this document also assists in the communications of this endeavour.ompete with plants for more easily-accessible N. Microbes convert N into easily leachable nitrate and gaseous N forms and are drivers of carbon (C) turnover in the soil. These microbial processes have not been comprehensively studied in sugarcane soils with different management. A special focus of this study was the development and application of novel molecular techniques to monitor soil microbial gene expression. This approach allows microbial functional analysis by treating soil as a “super organism” rather than deducing function from the presence of particular microbial taxa which is biased towards known microbial taxa.
Enhancing grower groups in the Australian sugar industry : final report BSS287
(2007) Allsopp, PG
Self-directed and self-funded grower groups in other Australian agricultural industries have demonstrated that participative R&D and action-learning processes can deliver knowledge, attitude and practice change at faster rates than conventional extension methods. Australian sugar-industry productivity groups have been slow to adopt these processes and concepts. The project aimed to establish and assist a pilot grower group that could demonstrate and communicate to the broader industry the issues and benefits of participative R&D, action learning, and group incorporation and self-funding.
Everything you wanted to know about cane payment but were too afraid to ask - information workshops for female business partners in the sugar industry : final report BSS289
(2007) Burgess, DJW; Ward, MJ
After a grower shed meeting at a Tableland cane farm, Drewe Burgess from BSES and Mick Ward from Bundaberg Sugar spent quite some time answering questions from the grower?s wife on cane payment, why harvesters cut in rounds, relative CCS, sugar pricing and general industry matters.As a result, Drewe and Mick successfully put a proposal to SRDC to support, with BSES, Bundaberg Sugar, QSL and CANEGROWERS a series of female ?Farm Business Partners? workshops on these issues in the Tableland and Innisfail-Babinda region.Workshops were run in Mareeba, Innisfail and Babinda in October 2006. Feedback from the 60 participants was excellent.As a result of the workshops, the investigators believe that female farm business partners value opportunities to increase their industry knowledge so that they can contribute more effectively to the farm business, and that just as traditional primarily male-participant activities cater for a male farmer environment (eg shed meetings), a feature of the success of these workshops was that they catered specifically for women. Hence, the workshops were designed with start and finish times to allow for children to be dropped off and picked up from school, an equal or greater number of female presenters, venues away from the (male-domain) farm shed, and workshop activities that build on women?s propensity to network and share information.

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