Useful Publications
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- Primary producers legal guide (free download)
- Water quality monitoring guide (free download)
- Manual of Cane Growing
Primary producer legal guide:
The Queensland Law Society Legal Guide for Primary Producers is available for download by clicking on the below link. This Guide seeks to give primary producers a broad understanding of the various State and Commonwealth laws that provide, in effect, a regulatory regime for farmers. The guide has been prepared to assist primary producers and reflects the law as at 30 June 2007.
WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN THE AUSTRALIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY
• Establish links between on-farm land and nutrient management practices
and water quality
• Determine if valuable soil, fertilisers or chemicals are being lost in farm runoff
• Evaluate the eff ectiveness of farm management practices
• Assess the health of water in dams, drainage systems or nearby water courses
• Check the quality of underground water used for irrigation
• Build local and regional knowledge of water quality conditions and trends.
• Demonstrate good custodianship and the benefi ts of industry best
management practices
Before the Best Management Practice series was released, there was been a number of initiatives leading up to it. One of the most recent was the Code of Practice for Sustainable Cane Growing in Queensland which was developed by CANEGROWERS in partnership with the sugarcane industry and the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency as a result of an audit of the sugar industry in 1996 which revealed the need for a greater access to information on how to improve productivity, profitability and environment. The Code of Practice was then worked into a grower friendly self-assessment handbook called COMPASS (Combining Profitability and Sustainability in Sugar), which has become the foundation for the more comprehensive Farm Assessment Program (FPA) run by BSES Limited.
