Facilitating enhanced Peanut / Sugar Cane rotation

Project title: Facilitating enhanced Peanut / Sugar Cane rotations by assessing and managing the issues related to growing peanuts in uncultivated cane trash blanket fallow.

Group name: Sustainable Sugar and Peanut Agriculture Pty Ltd.

Objectives: 

• To determine whether or not a commercial crop of peanuts can be grown in an uncultivated trash blanket.
• If a crop can be grown can it then be harvested successfully using conventional equipment with minor modifications.
• If it can't be harvested what issues need to be overcome to make harvest possible.
• What is the water requirement compared to conventional kg per kg peanut production.
• Does non incorporation of soil ameliorants affect cadmium uptake.
• What is the impact of this system on applied Nitrogen?
• What spray out regime is most effective for control of cane regrowth.
• Plant a crop of cane following the peanut harvest and monitor and assess it through to first harvest including randomised trial plot.

 Contact Person: Don Halpin 4159 7244