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Field day supports growers to improve water quality
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2018)
Field day supports growers to improve water quality
Taking the mystery out of precision spraying
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2016)
Tully region growers Brian and Jamie Dore are integrating GPS technology with their spot spraying, delivering useful results.
Handy tips – Nutgrass
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
Nutgrass competes intensely with cane for water and nutrients and can affect cane emergence and growth even before it emerges.
Pre-emergent herbicide options to help growers overcome diruon restrictions
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
A recent collaborative demonstration—between Sugar Research Australia, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF), and Plane Creek Productivity Services—has shown that other pre-emergent herbicide strategies ...
Using diuron-based herbicides? Know your no-spray periods
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
Following the Australian Pest and Veterinary Medicines Authority APVMA review of diuron, the APVMA permit PER 13874 which allowed for the phase out of old stock of diuron-based products has now expired. This means that all ...
Looking for new weed management systems
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2015)
Weed management is one of the important factors that contributes to a successful farm management plan. With continued scrutiny on diuron, how do some of the alternative herbicides stack up in the Wet Tropics?
Are you rat ready?
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
Cane growers are allowed to bait for rats from 1 October through to 30 June. However, there are a few things you need to consider in managing rats. The rats that cause most damage to cane, the ground rat (Rattus sordidus) ...
Exotic weed finds its way to Australia : Red witchweed : Striga asiatica
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
Growers will be aware that the Class 1 Declared weed Striga asiatica (red witchweed) is present on a few farms in the Mackay area. Biosecurity Queensland is continuing to survey properties to define the weed’s distribution. ...
Stool tipping? Yellowing? Gaps in ratoons? Maybe you’ve got canegrubs
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
With 19 different species, canegrubs have the highest potential of all our pests to cause economic loss.
Metering technology for liquid insecticide and herbicide application
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
Metering systems have been used in other cropping systems for many years to precisely apply insecticides and herbicides. This technology is now beginning to be used by sugarcane growers.