GROWING

HECTARES OF SUGARCANE

PRODUCING

TONNES OF SUGAR

FEEDING

MILLION PEOPLE

Davco Farming Overview

Davco Farming is an irrigated sugarcane farming business located adjacent to the Burdekin River 24 kilometers to the west of Ayr, North Queensland, Australia. 

• 3,400 ha cultivated - fully irrigated by furrow & drip
• Crop production 340,000 tonnes at 15% sucrose
• Commenced sugarcane production in 1987
• Development of grazing land to irrigated cropping since 1970s
• Annual rainfall 900mm (80% Dec-March)
• Crop irrigation requirement 9 to 10 ML/ha/annum

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:

• PrecisionAg Institute Precision Farmer Of The Year
• John Deere Global Ag Innovation Council 

• Australian Sugar Innovator Of The Year

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