Browsing CaneConnection articles by Author "Patane, P"

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    • Billet quality – a key element for planting success 

      Patane, P (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
      Planting is a major cost to the industry. It is important to get good plant establishment as it affects your ongoing returns through the crop cycle. Paying careful attention to the any components of the billet planting ...

    • Improving harvesting efficiency 

      Patane, P (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
      There are a number of actions that growers and operators can do to make this season’s and future harvests more efficient, to improve the productivity and profitability of their farming operations.

    • Local industries to drive the improvement of harvesting practices 

      Patane, P (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
      Each year the Australian sugar industry incurs avoidable cane losses during the harvesting process. Two new Regional Applied Research (RAR) projects, funded by SRA and led by productivity services groups with their local ...

    • Serious economic loss for growers and millers 

      Patane, P (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
      A prototype infield sucrose loss measurement system (ISMS) developed by the SRA engineering team has been successfully tested over the past four harvesting seasons from Mareeba down to NSW.