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Trickle investment delivers water use efficiency
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2015)
The investment in trickle-tape irrigation is yielding positive results for Burdekin farmer Aaron Linton.
Efficient pumps : keeping your costs down
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
Knowing how much a pump costs to run and how efficiently it is pumping makes it easier to decide what to change. Replacing a pump is a significant investment, but poorly performing pumps could be costing more to run than ...
Quantifying benefits of harvest best practice in NSW
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2015)
With in-field harvesting losses under the spotlight in New South Wales, industry members realised the best way to address the issue was to look at it from a whole of supply chain perspective.
NCEA receives funding for smarter irrigation
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2015)
Dr Joseph Foley and a team of National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture (NCEA) researchers have started working with 16 R&D partners and up to 19 farmer-managed learning sites in a $3.7 million Federal Government ...
Irrigation of sugarcane manual
(2014)
Sugarcane is a plant that originated in wet tropical regions
such as Hawaii and Papua New Guinea. Therefore, to achieve
maximum productivity, it requires an abundant supply of water
from either rainfall or irrigation.