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Weed management guidelines for mill mud users logo
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Weed management guidelines for mill mud users

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Improving understanding of the interaction between mill mud, weeds and herbicides, and identifying solutions to reduce herbicide losses and guarantee weed control when using mill mud.

1 Jun 2025 - 1 Apr 2028

Queensland, Australia

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Genetic analysis of lignocellulosic composition and biomass in sugarcane to maximise biofuel production logo
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Genetic analysis of lignocellulosic composition and biomass in sugarcane to maximise biofuel production

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Generating the tools for future selection of biofuel ready sugarcane varieties by identifying variation for lignocellulosic composition in the Australian sugarcane breeding program and testing for associated biofuel production.

11 Jun 2025 - 1 Jun 2028

Queensland, Australia

The University of Queensland

Sugarcane subsoil management for improvement of carbon and nitrogen use effiiciency logo
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Sugarcane subsoil management for improvement of carbon and nitrogen use effiiciency

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Enhancing carbon and nitrogen use efficiency and increasing sugarcane yield through subsoil management, specifically by applying organic amendments (e.g., compost, mill mud, manure).

9 Jul 2025 - 1 May 2029

Queensland, Australia

Griffith University

Translating gene networks for physiological traits from sorghum to improve breeding efficiency in sugarcane logo
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Translating gene networks for physiological traits from sorghum to improve breeding efficiency in sugarcane

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Building a cost-effective platform to enable gene discovery process approaches in sugarcane by using phenotypic and genotypic data generated by the SRA breeding program and the available extensive Sorghum resources.

25 Jul 2025 - 30 Sep 2028

Queensland, Australia

The University of Queensland

Using AI to optimise sugarcane planting practices logo
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Using AI to optimise sugarcane planting practices

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Improving sugarcane planting practices by leveraging new technologies, primarily AI but also advances in hardware, drones and computer vision.

1 Aug 2025 - 31 Dec 2028

Queensland, Australia

Griffith University

Beyond Imidacloprid – Ensuring Effective and Sustainable Canegrub Control for the Future logo
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Beyond Imidacloprid – Ensuring Effective and Sustainable Canegrub Control for the Future

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Evaluating in the field the efficacy, soil persistence, and soil mobility properties of new cane grub control products. Field evaluation is required by the APVMA as part of the requirements to support registration of new products or label change where a product may already be registered for other pest control...

1 Aug 2025 - 31 May 2027

Queensland, Australia

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Enhancing Australian sugarcane nitrogen use efficiency quantifying loss pathways and evaluating novel dual inhibitor effectiveness logo
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Enhancing Australian sugarcane nitrogen use efficiency quantifying loss pathways and evaluating novel dual inhibitor effectiveness

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Evaluating the effectiveness of dual inhibitors (urease and nitrification inhibitor), relative to existing enhanced efficiency fertilisers (EEFs), in mitigating N losses through N2O emission, NH3 volatilisation, leaching, and runoff, particularly in areas adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR).

14 Aug 2025 - 31 Aug 2028

Queensland, Australia

The University of Melbourne

Rapid field-based sugarcane tissue measurement using an integrated smartphone and lab-on-a-chip system logo
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Rapid field-based sugarcane tissue measurement using an integrated smartphone and lab-on-a-chip system

Sugar Research Australia (SRA)

Advancing an existing 'lab-on-a-chip' smartphone soil nutrient prototype, de-risking its commercial translation and delivering revolutionary tools for soil and leaf testing in the Australian sugar industry.

14 Aug 2025 - 31 Mar 2027

Queensland, Australia

Soils CRC

Assessing stunning factors that may impact carcase quality and animal welfare logo
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Assessing stunning factors that may impact carcase quality and animal welfare

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

The project will support a PhD student to research pre-, during- and post-stunning factors in commercial beef processing facilities that may influence carcase quality, meat quality and/or animal welfare; to identify the interactions of animal, process or production risk factors associated with stunning or slaughter that influence carcase or meat...

24 Jan 2025 - 1 Aug 2028

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Review of the AMIC Industry Animal Welfare Standard logo
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Review of the AMIC Industry Animal Welfare Standard

Australian Meat Processor Corporation (AMPC)

Animal welfare in meat processing continues to be criticised by animal rights groups and other stakeholders, and it is important that processors are able to demonstrate their commitment to science-based outcomes. In addition, trading partners are becoming increasingly focused on good animal welfare outcomes. This project will deliver a review...

13 Jun 2025 - 17 Nov 2025

New South Wales, Australia

Dr L Hewitt