Organisation | CSIRO |
Organisation | Sugar Research and Development Corporation |
Author | Thorburn, P |
Author | Webster, T |
Author | Biggs, J |
Author | Biggs. I |
Author | Park, S |
Date Accessioned | 2015-03-11 |
Date Available | 2015-03-11 |
Issued | 2008 |
Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11079/13981 |
Abstract | Nitrogen (N) fertiliser additions are an important contributor to productivity and profitability in intensive farming systems, including sugarcane production. However, applying N increases losses of N to the environment, and so all intensive agricultural industries face the challenge of maintaining productivity while minimising environmental impacts of N fertiliser use. This challenge has become particularly important for sugarcane production in Australia because community concern grows over the impact of N on the health of the Great Barrier Reef and sugarcane production has the largest use of N fertiliser in the region. It has been suggested that replacing the N lost from a crop through harvested cane and environmental losses will better align N fertiliser applications to the actual needs of sugarcane crops and the other potential sources of N available to the crop, and so improve the financial and environmental sustainability of the Australian sugarcane industry. In this project we tested and further developed an innovative N fertiliser management system, the N Replacement (NR) system. |
Language | en |
Part of Series | Internal Report; 2008 CSE011 |
Related Document | http://hdl.handle.net/11079/14318 |
Subject | Nitrogen (N) fertiliser |
Subject | N losses |
Subject | N Replacement (NR) system |
Subject | N management |
Subject | N fertiliser additions |
Subject | N replacement rate |
Subject | N from organic sources |
Subject | Monitoring N stress |
Subject | CAS-NIR |
Subject | Leaf testing |
Subject | 'A' class practice |
Subject | Best Management Practice |
Subject | Environmental losses |
Subject | Mill mud |
Subject | Soil N mineralisation |
Subject | APSIM |
Subject | Legumes |
Subject | N concentration |
Title | Improved environmental outcomes and profitability through innovative management of nitrogen SRDC research project CSE011 final report |