Completed projects and reports: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Farm management systems training course : Farm Management Systems for the Sugarcane Industry, Sub-program 3
(2007)The Farm Management Systems suite of projects came about in response to an increasing need for grower resources and demonstrated capacity to manage the environmental pressures of profitable cane farming. In total 5 projects ... -
Increasing the capacity to identify and action value chain integration opportunities
(2005)This report provides a review of the past value chain sugar research in Australia and other countries, and formulates key messages that the Australian industry can learn upon for future value chain activities. Compared to ... -
Crop investigation into grain; legume crops suitable for incorporation into a cane rotation : SRDC final report CG009
(SRDC, 1998)Funding was obtained from the Australian Government Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC) to undertake a feasibility study into opportunities for grain and legume crop industries in the coastal sugar ... -
Generation Next Forum : Townsville evaluation report
(2006)The Generation Next Forum resulted in approximately fifty young people from all sectors of the Australian Sugar Industry identifying practical commitments they could contribute to the future of the industry. The Generation ... -
The value chain of the Australian Sugar Industry : developments in the period 1970-2005 and future opportunities
(2006)This report by the Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC) provides an overview of the “state-of-the-art” of value chain improvement in the Australian sugar industry. It seeks to firstly, improve the level of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Developing the leadership capacity of the Australian Sugar Industry : Final report LDI001
(Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC), 2008)Young members of the Australian Sugar Industry see themselves as being isolated from the decision-making process, primarily because they don’t understand the process but also due to a lack of investment in developing skills ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Design and build a moving wall on side tipping cane transporters : SRA Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2006)With the finalisation of the New South Wales Sugar Milling Cooperative’s Co-generation project, the transportation of whole of cane crop, with its 50% increase in bulk density, without losing the current efficiencies of ... -
Demonstrate the true value of harvesting best practice and provide the basis for the sharing of the additional revenue created by its adoption
(2008)The Cooperative Systems project (SRDC Project MSA003) considered how a cane quality incentive scheme might be incorporated into a cane payment. The report discussed the measurement and feedback of cane quality data to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Develop and assess adaptability of different row spacings for harvester fronts : SRDC Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(2007)Cutting different row widths is a piece of cake this season for a Home Hill cane harvester contractor. This project allowed an easy change of harvester front’s widths by the pull of a lever from 1.52m to 1.83m rows, which ... -
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 ... -
Accurate and consistent bed forming to promote better farming practices
(2007)Executive Summary:The aim of the project was to establish an economic and sustainable way of forming beds in our area to aid the sustainability of the SYDJV. Key results from our project were economic and environmental ... -
Controlled traffic farming systems for the North Coast Grower Group : SRDC Grower Group Innovation Project Final report
(2008)The project aim was to implement and trial farming systems that incorporate the practices of controlled traffic, minimum tillage and crop rotations. The North Coast Grower Group members combined their resources and efforts ...