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Barcoding a tool to assist the industry to manage insect incursions
(ASSCT, 2015)
THE AUSTRALIAN SUGARCANE industry has been fortunate not to have several significant insect pests that exist overseas. Moth borers are a particular concern to the Australian sugar industry due to the heavy losses they cause ...
Herbicides and the water quality conundrum
(ASSCT, 2017)
Herbicidal impact on the health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) lagoon came to the forefront in 2009 with the Queensland Government’s Great Barrier Reef Protection Amendment Act 2009 and the concurrent review of diuron by ...
Factors affecting the distribution of the vine species in sugarcane: results of GIS surveys in Central Queensland
(ASSCT, 2015)
Extracted from the Proceedings of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technology, Volume 37, 2015.
Chlorotic streak transmission and crop dynamics research
(ASSCT, 2016)
CHLOROTIC STREAK DISEASE (CSD) is transmitted in water, specifically drainage, flood
or irrigation water. Research showed that transmission in water was increased by the
addition of oxytetracyline (Terramycin). A two-hour ...
Optimum canegrub management within new sustainable cropping systems : SRDC final report BSS266
(BSES, 2010)
This project addressed the issue of canegrub management in new farming systems. Many cane growers are adopting or planning to adopt one or more components of 'new farming systems' - legume rotations, reduced tillage and ...
An integrated approach to nutgrass control : SRDC final report NFS002
(BSES, 2010)
This project aimed to formulate and promote an integrated approach to nutgrass control in
sugarcane cropping systems. The project was a Grower Group Research Project
undertaken from July 2007 to June 2010 by the NSW ...
Solving Yellow Canopy Syndrome
(BSES, 2014)
The project has made progress in addressing its four key objectives. Those being: i) To provide leadership in terms of industry focus and communication ii) to identify the causal factors of YCS iii) to develop management ...
Evaluating commercially available precision weed spraying technology for detecting weeds in sugarcane farming systems
(ASSCT, 2013)
Precision spraying systems which use optical sensing technology to detect green weeds were evaluated for their suitability for use in sugarcane farming systems. The Weedseeker® spraying system was specifically evaluated ...
Strategies to limit the impact of nematode pressure on sugarcane productivity in the Isis : final report 2013/071
(BSES, 2015)
Two trials were done in this project.
One was a continuation of work started under a previous GRDC/SRDC-funded activity, 'Strategies to improve the integration of legumes into cane based farming systems'. This trial aimed ...