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Irrigation risk management strategies to reduce water use and maximize profitability; a paradigm shift in performance to $ per unit of water : Final report CTA038
(SRDC, 2003)
The Australian sugar industry is predisposed to maximize the benefits of irrigation because of
its geographic and climatic location. However mistakes of older irrigation schemes elsewhere
in Australia, need to be ...
Review, analysis and discussion of precision agriculture technologies : SRDC Final report NCA009
(2007)
The development of a range of new technologies has brought agriculture and agricultural equipment to a whole new level of sophistication. First hypothesised in the early 1990’s, Precision Agriculture (PA) is a crop management ...
Implementation of irrigation practices for profitable resource efficient sugarcane production in the Ord : Final report CSE007
(SRDC, 2006)
Sugarcane is currently the major crop in the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) in terms of area, occupying
approximately 4000 hectares or a third of the irrigable area. It is also possible that further expansion could ...
Regional evaluation of high density planting : SRDC Final report BSS241
(2003)
This project was successful in comparing two farming systems: conventional 1.52-m single rows and the High Density Planting system (HDP), which consists of four rows on a 2.1-m wide bed using controlled-traffic and ...
Improving harvest efficiency in the Mossman Central Mill area : SRDC Final report
(2006)
The Mossman sugar industry in 2004 was characterised by small farms and small blocks, an excessive kilometer/tonne transport ratio, an aging transport infrastructure with a bin fleet of limited capacity, a decreasing area ...
New soybean varieties for fallow cropping of sugarcane fields : SRDC Final report
(2008)
Cropping of soybean has been shown by the yield decline joint venture to increase the yield of the following sugar crop by 15 to 30 percent. Part of the benefit occurs via provision of nitrogen to the following cane crop ...
Understanding water quality in sugarcane farming systems : SRDC Final report BSS329
(2005)
The ‘new’ sugarcane farming system (reduced tillage, controlled traffic, legume break) has many advantages over the traditional farming system. However, the impact on water quality is not known. This project aimed to ...
Delivering web-based irrigation management : SRDC Final report BSS297
(2009)
This project furthered the development of WaterSense. This is a web-based sugarcane irrigation scheduling and planning tool that allows the user to optimise irrigation inputs over multiple fields and enhance potential ...
Beneficial use irrigation strategies with treated urban effluent : Final report 972471
(2000)
Objectives for research:1. To identify the demand for effluent water by comparing three levels of water application to assess economics of crop response to water, and the impact on balancing storage capacity;2. To select ...