Knowledge and Technology Transfer and Adoption
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Research outcomes: Research results and new technologies are communicated and transferred in an appropriate and timely manner across the industry value chain, supporting increased uptake of best-practice and innovative technology. A skilled advisory sector that drives the adoption of new technology. An industry knowledge base that incorporates and makes freely available the most up-to-date production methodologies to industry. Collaborative alliances, partnerships and networks that optimise synergies, integrate knowledge and share best-practices.
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Sugar industry productivity and data recording spatial data hub for research and extension.
(Sugar Research Australia, 21/05/2018)The Australian sugar industry was an early adopter of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and has considerable spatial data of where the crop has been grown. In some cases, data extends back for more than 20 years. When ... -
Final report 2014/093: Tissue culture - managing impediments to adoption in Tully
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017-03)The world is moving and changing every year, it is timely to investigate technologies available outside our current industry practice. When the opportunity arrives we need to take it and explore the possibilities as an ... -
Final Report - SRDC Project BSS279 - Improving extension capacity
(2006)The extension staff in the Burdekin district are both fresh-faced and full of new ideas. One of their largest hurdles to jump is the implementation of science into the real world. Growers are some of the hardest nuts to ... -
A pilot for business planning for young farmers and partner in the sugarcane industry
(2014)Through ACFA’s Next Gen program, it was identified that given the aging demographic of cane farmers it is important that young farmers, the future decision makers of the industry, are provided with the tools and skills ... -
Boosting productivity in Maryborough by assisting cane growers to understand their soils
(2014)This project was based around producing a soil map of the Bauple area which is south of Maryborough. The soil map will be a valuable tool for improving productivity in the area because it can facilitate better farm management, ... -
SRDC Reseach Project final report SREMS (Sugarcane Research Experiment Management System)
(2011)SRDC-funded physiological and agronomic experiments have been conducted by many researchers from various research institutes over the past decades. The resulting datasets are typically stored in idiosyncratic formats in a ... -
Moving from case studies to whole of industry: Implementing methods for wider industry adoption final report SRDC Research Project CSE009
(2007)Many of the challenges that the sugarcane industry faces are complex systems issues and R&D addressing these issues requires the active participation of industry stakeholders. A deeper understanding of processes that ... -
Final report Sugar Research and Development Corporation Preparation of a CD Rom library of plant-parasitic nematodes
(2003)Plant parasitic nematodes are of considerable importance to all cropping industries within Australia. Losses caused by plant parasitic nematodes currently recorded in Australia is estimated at between $300 to 450 million. ... -
Developing a new approach to extension for widespread adoption of Best Management Practice
(2002)MUL001 has sought to improve the uptake of research outcomes by the sugar industry’s growing sector. It is recognised that the traditional one-to-one extension approach is no longer affordable and the current system was ... -
Towards long-term sustainability of sugarcane farming in the Johnstone River catchment
(2001)Cane farmers are important stakeholders in the Johnstone River Catchment. Their engagement in the sustainability debate is essential, however, at times they appear to be isolated from it. The Johnstone River Catchment ... -
Facilitating the commercialisation of products from GM sugarcane : communications plan
(2007)This project addresses the knowledge gap of how management affects soil biological processes. This is important because management has to maximise soil health and nutrient relations. Knowledge of soil biology in context ... -
SRDC Travel and Learning Project final report Grower Innovation Virtual Expo
(2008)GIVE 2008 was a follow up to the very successful GIVE 2006. GIVE stands for Grower Innovation Virtual Expo.For the first time in the history of the Australian sugar industry, groups of growers have been funded to undertake ... -
SRDC Research Project final report DPI015 Enhancing an economic way of doing business in the cane industry
(2008)Economics is often viewed by farmers as complex and time consuming. Economic work in the Australian sugar cane industry had been undertaken in the past but the large majority of this work was not targeted towards growers ... -
GIVE 2009 project report
(2009)The Grower Innovation Virtual Expo (GIVE 09) was hosted by the Herbert Young Farmers and Herbert and Tully grower groups. The event was also supported by Herbert Cane Productivity Services Limited (HCPSL), Tully Cane ... -
SRDC Grower Group Innovation Project final report Helping sugarcane farmers integrate electronic recording systems into their farming business
(2012)The use of timely and accurate records can improve farm profitability through the evaluation of past, current and future performance of the business. Electronic farm management records are relatively new for the sugar ... -
Summary of a symposium on productivity limits in the wet tropics of the Queensland sugar industry: held at Babinda, 14 June, 1995
(June 1995)Improving productivity is the main strategy of the Australian sugar industry for increasing competitive performance in the international sugar market. It is also one of the key objectives of research and extension ... -
Report for terrain natural resource management extension officer support services to cane farmers in the Herbert/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 ... -
Report for terrain natural resource management : delivery of six easy steps and integrated weed management workshops throughout the terrain 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 ... -
Final report - SRDC project BSS287 : Enhancing grower groups in the Australian Sugar Industry
(2007)Self-directed and self-funded grower groups in other Australian agricultural industries have demonstrated that participative R&D and action-learning processes can deliver knowledge, attitude and practice change at faster ... -
Developing an integrated cropping-systems RD&E program for the sugar industry
(2008)Sugarcane trash is used extensively as garden mulch in an industry with a value in excess of $20 million per annum. The incursion of sugarcane smut has complicated the movement of trash by companies that provide sugarcane ...
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