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Davco Farming Overview

Davco Farming is an farming business located 24 kilometers to the west of Ayr, North Queensland, Australia. 

• Developed grazing land to irrigated cropping since 1970s 
• Commenced sugarcane production 1987 ​
• Crop irrigation requirement 9 to 10 ML/ha/annum
•  Commenced beef feedlotting 2010 ​

Precision Sugarcane Farming

Davco Farming is an internationally recognised leader in state of the art mechanised sugarcane production, having co-developed or introduced a number of technologies to the global sugarcane industry including:

• Laser Landforming (1979)
• Irrigation Tailwater Recycling (1987)
• Sugarcane Yield Mapping (1996)
• Control Traffic Farming (1997)
• 2cm GPS Machinery Guidance (1998)
• Variable Rate Input Application (2001)
• GPS Weed Mapping (2001)
• GPS Landforming (2007)
• 6 Row Billet Planter (2013)

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Awards

DAVCO Farming has been recognized with awards for innovative farming practices. These include:

• USA based PrecisionAg Institute's Precision Farmer Of The Year
• John Deere Global Ag Innovation Council 

• Australian Sugar Innovator Of The Year

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