Catchment Solutions has successfully secured funding for Project Catalyst from the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to work with sugar cane farmers across the Mackay Whitsundays, Dry Tropics and Wet Tropics regions in north Queensland. The project supports a network of cane farmers and agronomy … [Read more...]
Project Catalyst Growers Visit to Coca-Cola HQ in Sydney
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...]
Capturing innovation for the reef
With the spotlight still firmly on the health of the iconic Great Barrier Reef, Project Catalyst continues to be a beacon of hope to those striving to reduce nutrient runoff. From humble beginnings with 19 sugarcane growers in 2009, 78 families from Mackay to Cairns are inspiring their peers and … [Read more...]
Sugarcane farmers the ‘Game Changer’ for our reef
Shared learning to encourage wider adoption of on-farm practice change Farmers are using radio transmitters to better protect the Great Barrier Reef whilst reducing their own costs. The transmitters and moisture probes which turn irrigation off at precisely the right moment to reduce runoff, … [Read more...]
Qld initiative leads innovation
Seven years on and the collaboration is proving to be revolutionary Project Catalyst programmes began in Mackay in 2008 to encourage wide spread adoption of on-farm practice change, at this years annual Catalyst forum being held in Cairns February 22-23, innovative growers and partners will … [Read more...]