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    Too wet to forget - reducing the impact of excessive rainfall on productivity : Final report 2014/046
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017) Salter, B;
    Too wet to forget – reducing the impact of excessive rainfall on productivity, was established due to the large productivity losses associated with La-Nina events in the sugarcane industry. The effect of waterlogging on the crop has also been largely ignored for decades. The project had four main activities:
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    Improved sugarcane farming systems : SRDC Final report BSS286
    (2010) Salter, B; Bell, MJ; Stirling, GR; Garside, AL; Moody, PJ
    This project - Improved Sugarcane Farming Systems (BSS286) - was designed to build on the outcomes of phase 1 and 2 or the Sugar Yield Decline Joint Venture (STDJV). Thus its main focus was on issues that had been identified in the SYDJV that were not fully researched in the earlier programs and/or required further development.
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    Evaluation of genotypes for a controlled traffic farming system : SRDC Final report BSS296
    (BSES, 2012) Salter, B
    The Sugar Yield Decline Joint Venture concluded that, in order to improve soil health, the sugar industry should break the monoculture using fallow legume crops, adopt controlled traffic and reduce soil cultivation. Controlled traffic can be achieved on any row configuration as it requires the matching of machinery and row spacing. Currently, however, the majority of harvesting machinery has a track/wheel spacing of 1.8 - 1.9 m. With many growers adopting these wide-row configurations there was a concern that the available cultivars would not be suitable. This was due to the majority of selection in the plant breeding program being conducted on a 1.5 m single-row configuration and recent evidence of a significant cultivar-by-row-configuration interaction.