Long-term Ingham and Mackay farming system experiments:
comparisons between permanent non-tilled beds and re-formed beds
Garside, A.L., Poggio, M.G., Park, G., Salter, B., and Perna, J.
(2010) Long-term Ingham and Mackay farming system experiments:
comparisons between permanent non-tilled beds and re-formed
beds. Sugar Cane International, 28 (3). pp. 95-101. |PDF
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Experiments involving row spacing and tillage, originally
established in Mackay and Ingham in 2001, were planted to a
second cycle of sugarcane in 2006 following a soybean break. In
the second cycle 1.5 m and 1.8 m single and 1.8 m dual rows were
established into fully prepared land or land that was kept in
permanent beds, receiving no tillage since 2001. In the plant
crop in both experiments, tillage produced a highly significant
increase in cane and sugar yield but t