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Summary of a symposium on productivity limits in the wet tropics of the Queensland sugar industry
(2013)
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 ...
Tissue culture - managing impediments to adoption in Tully : final report 2014/093
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2017)
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 ...
Sugar industry productivity and data recording spatial data hub for research and extension : final report 2015/045
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2015)
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 ...
Sugarcane Research Experiment Management System (SREMS) : SRDC final report
(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 ...
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 ...
Adoption of practices to mitigate harvest losses : ASSCT peer reviewed paper
(ASSCT, 2019)
Harvesting Best Practice (HBP) recommends that harvesters maintain pour rates of 80-90 t/h,
depending on make and model, and recommends extractor-fan speed guidelines that ensure
minimal cane loss with low extraneous ...
Productivity performance of climatological sub-regions within the Tully Mill area : ASSCT peer-reviewed paper
(ASSCT, 2019)
Inter-annual climate variability has a significant impact on productivity in the Wet Tropics
region. Climate also varies spatially, yet the impact on productivity is less well known. Two
distinct climatological sub-regions ...
Helping sugarcane farmers integrate electronic recording systems into their farming business : SRDC Grower Group Innovation Project final report
(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 ...
Measuring the profitability and environmental implications when growers transition to best management practices : final report 2014/015
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2018)
The development of sugarcane Best Management Practices (BMPs) aims to improve the
productivity, profitability and sustainability of sugarcane farms. However, there has been limited
research that has examined both the ...
Development of an Intelligent Tool to allow real-time evaluation of harvesting practices as part of a framework for improved harvester payment systems : final report 2016/951
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2019)
The project has resulted in the development of a cane loss indicator which can be a valuable tool to assist the harvester operator to optimise harvester performance as crop conditions change throughout the day. The system ...