Johnstone Nitrogen Use Efficiency Project #1

The Johnstone Nitrogen Use Efficiency Project #1 is located on a sugarcane farming enterprise within the Johnstone River Catchment, which drains to the Great Barrier Reef. This Reef Credit Project has been developed in a partnership between GreenCollar and the land manager. The Project generates Reef Credits under the Method for Accounting Reduction in Nutrient Runoff through Managed Fertiliser Application Version 1.1. through (but not limited to) the following project activities: – Efficient nitrogen fertiliser application – Maintenance of green cane trash blanket including as fallow cover on final ratoon – Machines and implements used for bed forming, tillage, planting, spraying all operate on the same wheel spacings. – Maintain row widths at 1.6-1.9m – Plant sugarcane fallow land to legumes or alternate crops when the opportunity arises – Zonal tillage only, with no more than 70% of the area cultivated for cane