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Report for terrain natural resource management extension officer support services to cane farmers in the Herbert and Tully region
(2011)
As part of the Reef Rescue project, BSES Limited has two contracts with Terrain Natural Resource Management involving the delivery of specific extension services to the sugar cane industry in the Terrain region sugarcane ...
Enhanced Productivity Information to Improve Extension Programs and Research Data : final report BS128S
(1997)
A project was undertaken to extend previously available productivity software tools. Using the end product of a previous project as a prototype, a new application was recreated in a different programming language. The ...
The development of an extension network amongst growers in Tully with a view to improving industry profitability in a participatory atmosphere : final report BSS253
(2002)
The challenge for industry personnel was to develop a network amongst canegrowers in Tully that would provide more effective extension of research and development than current methods could achieve. A project in Mulgrave ...
Farm assessment of productivity limits in the wet tropics : SRDC Final report BSS159
(2000)
There is an ongoing concern in the wet tropics over productivity levels, particularly with regard to low CCS. Previously, productivity trends within the region have been assessed utilising mill area statistics (Smith, ...
A participatory approach towards improving industry sector profits through improved harvesting efficiency : SRDC Final report BSS227
(2002)
Recent productivity gains through the introduction of high yielding varieties, green cane harvesting, improved drainage and irrigation have resulted in larger, mostly lodged crops with increased suckering. As a result, ...
Best management practice for sugarcane varieties : SRDC Final report BSS 234
(2002)
This has been both a challenging and rewarding project within the northern sugar industry. Increasing economic pressure in the wet tropics has seen a need to develop and adopt better short- and long-term strategies to ...
Share-farming options for the Australian sugar industry : SRDC Final report BSS298
(2007)
The Australian sugar industry is faced with an aging farmer population, high land prices that limit expansion and a large number of small farms. Share farming and leasing have the potential to solve these three problems.This ...
Sugar yield decline joint venture, phase 2 : SRDC Final report
(2006)
Research in phase 2 has greatly increased our understanding of how farming systems operate, the key components of farming systems, and how they can be manipulated to provide better outcomes.
Specialist grower groups enhancing BMP packaging and adoption in Innisfail, and Babinda districts : Final report IBS002
(Innisfail Babinda Cane Productivity Services, 2008)
It was generally accepted throughout the sugar fraternity that grower group structures within the Innisfail / Babinda region were generally disjointed and, at times, lost credence by peers through the lack of network ...
Innovative farmers in the Herbert : Environmental protection agency project final report
(2007)
Farming systems innovation has been taking place in the Herbert region since the early days of the sugar industry. During the 1960s and 1970s a complete change in the farming system took place with the introduction of ...