The Loeskow family at Bundaberg is successfully using a peanut rotational crop to improve soil health and lift sugarcane production.

Piecing together a soil health jigsaw puzzle

Fallowing should be an integral part of the cane production cycle. The fallow period provides a break from the cane monoculture and has important soil health benefits. However, the strategy you use needs to be one that ...

Australian farmers face many similar challenges to those faced in the South African sugarcane industry

A long-standing collaboration with researchers in Papau New Guinea has broadened Australia's understanding of important diseases that pose a possible biosecurity threat to Australian sugarcane.

The 2016 season is shaping up as positive for sugarcane grower Bruce Davies. Bruce Davies started his farming career in 1993, and in those 23 years of farming he can't recall many years like 2016 when good yields have lined ...

Participation in 2017 harvesting demonstration trials has shown Lorens Riera opportunities for improvement for harvesting efficiency.

Protecting Our Chemicals for the Future is a project based in the northern Wet Tropics that works with grower groups to demonstrate the value of best management practices for chemical management on sugarcane farms.

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 ...

The Chapman family in the southern region have used a number of innovative techniques to improve soil health on their farm, reducing input costs and delivering other benefits.