Since 2009, Project Catalyst and its ground-breaking farm practices have improved 150 billion litres of water quality. In June 2017, seven of the 70 Queensland cane growers came to Coca-Cola HQ in Sydney to tell their stories. Here's what they had to say. https://youtu.be/06q7bJOUp3E … [Read more...]
Reef Trust IV – erosion reduction support available
Support is available for landholders to reduce erosion of riparian areas. Catchment Solutions has been awarded funding through the Australian Government Reef Trust IV – Gully and Stream Bank Erosion Control Program to undertake erosion management works within one high priority sub-catchment of the … [Read more...]
Do Herbicides Destroy Soils in the Long Term?
- Opinion piece With Rob Eccles, Catchment Solutions Agricultural Innovation M: 0439 308 179 | E: reccles@catchmentsolutions.com.au People pitch when asked this question from many agendas. Some say all synthetic chemicals are evil and we should renounce … [Read more...]
Mackay region harvests first commercial-scale rice crop, grown on sugar farm
After a decade of research and trials, harvesting has taken place on the first commercial rice crop near Palmyra in the Mackay region. Aerobically grown rice rather than a flooded paddy will give cane growers in the region a new source of income. The crop of the doongara rice variety covered … [Read more...]
Project Catalyst partner CEO’s head north for Mackay Whitsunday tour
Leading CEO’s from Coca-Cola and WWF recently took time out in the Mackay Whitsunday region in the name of sustainable farming. On March 19th & 20th 2015, Roberto Mercade, CEO Coca-Cola South Pacific, and Dermot O'Gorman, CEO of WWF-Australia headed north for a tour of … [Read more...]