Innisfail grower Adrian Darveniza has implemented a range of best management practices on his 240ha farm that have seen the business gain Smartcane BMP accreditation.To quantify just what the benefits…
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Workplace Health and Safety Process Management
Case Study S-BMP-OHS-2013-001-01Russell Jordan is fairly new to the cane industry. After spending 14 years under car bonnets as a mechanic, Russell was determined to try life on the land,…
Soil Health and Plant Nutrition Management #2
Case Study S-BMP-SHM-2013-002-01Brothers Darryl and Lester Cronau farm 276 ha of cane and manage a total land area of 375 ha at Pilerwa and Yerra, south-west of Maryborough. This year…
Soil Health and Plant Nutrition
Case StudyFor many years, Tony and Katrina Chapman, along with son Mitchell and Tony’s father, Frank, have been implementing a controlled traffic, minimum tillage farming system that incorporates a legume…
Pest, Disease and Weed Management #2
Case StudyTowering above the cane fields at Murray Upper, just south of Tully Township, is a contraption that has allowed sugarcane grower Peter Vecchio to save time and chemical use.…
Pest, Disease and Weed Management
Case Study S-BMP-IPM-2013-001-01Highway rolls through the bayous and cane paddocks of the Murray Flats, the landscape changes rapidly as the unmistakable jagged chiselled outline of Hinchinbrook Island takes shape on…