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Precision agriculture options for the Australian sugarcane industry
(2007)
Precision agriculture (PA) has been embraced in other Australian agricultural industries. With the increase in adoption rates of new farming system principles including controlled traffic within the sugarcane industry, ...
Investment analyses for the Managing Climate Variability Program
(2007)
The Managing Climate Variability Program (MCVP) managed by Land and Water Australia (LWA) is scheduled to be completed by June 2007. In accord with LWA policy, the impact of the program required assessment and the impacts ...
Implementing zero-till planting systems in the NSW sugar industry
(2007)
The project ‘Implementing Zero-Tillage Planting Systems in the NSW Sugar Industry’ aimed to introduce a direct drill billet planter to plant extensive areas of trial and commercial cane in the three mill areas of NSW. A ...
Precision farming with controlled traffic and GPS guidance system : SRA Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2007)
After working with the Central Region new farming system grower group we decided to take the system to the next level and implement GPS guidance and precision. Our aim was to overcome the problems associated with converting ...
Incentive price harvesting signals versus traditional payment system : SRA Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2007)
Is to help farmers with the transition from the traditional way that they have paid for their cane to be harvested to an incentive pricing system that related to their farm layout and the management of the cane harvested ...
Overcoming barriers to controlled traffic adoption : SRDC Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2007)
At the commencement of this project, the available solutions for keeping harvesting traffic centred on wider row spacings while adequately filling cane bins are not effective. This was due to unsuitable harvester elevator ...
Electronic logbook for harvest record keeping : SRDC Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2007)
The main project aims were to develop an electronic harvester logging system that would be user friendly and reduce the requirements for manual entry of data. The information collected was then collated and reported to the ...
Improved harvesting efficiency in farming systems : SRDC Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2007)
The aim of the project was to achieve more efficient harvesting within our group. We monitored the harvesting effort for each paddock to determine the levels of paddock efficiency and increase awareness of the results. The ...
Modified rotary-pinch chopper system for improved harvesting efficiency : SRDC Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2007)
Bin weight is becoming an increasingly topical issue for the Australian sugar industry, with millers and haul-out contractors seeking to improve the efficiency of their operations by hauling more cane per trip using existing ...
Global change : helping inform the Australian sugar industry on potential impacts, possible adaptation strategies and best bet investment of R&D
(2007)
Australia is facing some degree of continuing global change (IPCC 2007) (referred to as climate change in this report, and including climate variables and atmospheric gases). The Agriculture and Food Policy Reference Group ...