Browsing Completed projects and reports by Title
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Productivity improvements through energy innovation in the Australian sugar industry : final report 2017/011
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2020)Water pumping forms a significant portion of energy use in Australian irrigated agriculture. Water for Australia’s $2 billion annual sugarcane crop is from precipitation and irrigation. As an irrigated industry in a variable ... -
Productivity performance of climatological sub-regions within the Tully Mill area : ASSCT peer-reviewed paper
(ASSCT, 2019)Inter-annual climate variability has a significant impact on productivity in the Wet Tropics region. Climate also varies spatially, yet the impact on productivity is less well known. Two distinct climatological sub-regions ... -
Profit based measures to capture, evaluate and prioritise genetic improvement of water use efficiency and nitrogen use efficiency in sugarcane : final report 2014/302
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2016)Sugar Research Australia (SRA) contracted AbacusBio Pty Ltd with IDA Economics Pty Ltd to undertake a systems modelling project to estimate the relative economic value of two potential new performance traits of sugarcane ... -
Progress report on BSES and WRC studies of water quality in Woongarra-Pemberton area - July 1981
(1981)This report summarizes results of a pot trial comparing bore and surface water; co-operative monitoring of water-table levels with the Water Resources Commission; field trials with various ameliorants; and a field survey ... -
Project 921 - rates of biodunder for sugarcane : final report
(1995)The BSES recommendation for a maximum application rate is considered adequate to maximise returns and production for ratoon crops on the majority of Mackay soils. As the experiments were conducted only on ratoon crops, ... -
Project Mackay alignment of grower services (MAGS) : Final report MAP002
(Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC), 2010)The Mackay Sugar region recognised that there was room for improvement of grower services which were available in the region and many issues were discovered to exist. An Alignment group was established which consisted in ... -
Project No 2025: Final report bench testing of new nitrogen products for potential ammonia volatilisation: when boradcast onto soil or sugarcane trash (N-gold "A", N-gold "B")
(1996)N-Gold "A" and N-Gold "B" are granulated products containing urea and calcium oxide with 42.4 and 43.2 % N and 1.5 and 1.3 % Ca respectively. When broadcast onto soil or a green cane trash blanket, ammonia volatilisation ... -
Promotion of integrated pest management in sugarcane: Final report BS184
(1998)Associate Professor and agricultural science writer Lisa Halvorsen was invited to work with the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations for five months. Her aim was to help develop effective communications strategies for ... -
Prospects for a genetic solution to the management of ratoon stunting disease : ASSCT peer-reviewed paper
(ASSCT, 2021)Ratoon stunting disease (RSD,) caused by a bacterium (Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli), is one of the most important diseases of sugarcane in Australia. RSD is an inconspicuous and highly infectious disease and can spread ... -
Protecting our chemicals for the future through the accelerated adoption of best management practices : final report 2016/002
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2020)The project ran in the Wet Tropics for three years from September 2017. The project set out to improve water quality in Great Barrier Reef catchments through increasing the uptake of management practices to reduce losses ... -
Proving a natural gamma ray soil monitor in sugar mill application : SRDC final project BS177S
(BSES, 1999)A commercially available instrument for measurement of soil in cane supplied to mills has been successfully commissioned at Tully Sugar Limited and is being used for cane payment and by mill personnel as an alarm for ... -
Provision of improved varieties and pathology services for the Ord Sugar Industry : final report CTA043
(2003)This project was established to introduce and evaluate new sugarcane varieties into the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA), and to provide advice on pathology issues relating to the ORIA. Cultivars in the ORIA currently are ... -
Provision of improved varieties and pathology services for the Ord Sugar Industry : Final report CTA043
(2012)This project was established to introduce and evaluate new sugarcane varieties into the Ord river Irrigation Area (ORIA), and to provide advice on pathology issues relating to the ORIA. Cultivars in the ORIA currently are ... -
QNR-3 the Australian On-line Agrometeorological Information Service (SILO)
(Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation, 2000)Australian agriculture operates in an extremely variable climate that impacts on productivity, profitability and resource condition. This climate variability, in conjunction with declining terms of trade, has driven farmers ... -
Quantification of the potential to reduce harvesting losses by utilisation of field edge trash separation technology
(2013)NorrisECT conducted a series of SRDC supported trials into the potential to improve industry profitability through the use of post-harvest cleaning at sites in the New South Wales Sugar Milling Cooperative and Isis Mill ... -
Quantifying and managing sources of sediments and nutrients in low-lying canelands : Project no CLW007 - final report
(2003)Queensland’s north-east coast are used for sugar production. Various studies investigating sediment discharge from catchments where sugar is an important land use have demonstrated that sediment export from cane lands often ... -
Quantifying the socio-economic impacts of harvesting residue retention systems : SRDC Final report BSS173
(2002)BSS173: 'Quantifying the socio-economic impacts of harvesting residue retention systems' is a project jointly funded by the Sugar Research and Development Corporation and Land and Water Australia (formally Land and Water ... -
Raising awareness and adoption of sustainable cane growing practices : SRDC Final report BSS238
(2002)This project aimed to raise awareness and adoption of sustainable canegrowing practices in the Queensland and New South Wales sugar industries by providing canegrowers with the capacity to critically assess their farming ... -
Rapid detection of ratoon stunting disease; final report 2013/001
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2016)This project's objective was to develop a rapid 'sniff test' to diagnose ratoon stunting disease (RSD) using a new technology called 'Enose' or electronic nose. The aim was to be able to identify contaminated cane within ... -
Rationalising insecticide use in the control of wireworms : SRDC final report BS102S
(BSES, 1997)This project aimed to develop a method to detect wireworms in pre-plant fallows, thus allowing rational decisions to be made on whether or not to use insecticide for wireworm control at planting. Insecticide would be used ...