Weekly Bible Verse

Psalm 23:1 - 4

Crema, Roy Favier, Sam Pappalardo

Wednesday 19

Jan Pease, Bree, Carol Carstensen, Marilyn Weigand, Janette Evans, Josie Pease, Mary McDonald, Karen Edwards

Friday 21

Marilyn Weigand, Carol Carstensen, Trish Lardi, Mary Bacic, Pam Cridland, Marilyn Weigand, Viena Morris

Monday 24

Carol Carstensen, Marilyn Weigand, Sue Robson, Carol Carstensen, Sue Robson, Lisa LaSpina

Wednesday 26

Jan Pease, Bree, Carol Carstensen, Marilyn Weigand, A Pacey, Loraine Cargnello, Miriam Pappalardo, Desley Reid

Thursday 27

Marilyn Weigand, Carol Carstensen, Anita Stapley, Leslee Marker, Julie Jordan, C & K Littlemore

Monday 31

Marilyn Weigand, Carol Carstensen, Chrissy Argyros, Trish Lardi, Loui Crema, Roy Favier, Sam Pappalardo

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

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Church times across the region

Tully Family Church, 9am, Sun, 2 Watkins St, Tully Cardwell AOG,

AOG / ACC / Churches of Christ Baptist Family Centre Innisfail, 9:30am, Sun, 12 Tierney St, Innisfail Estate

Catholic Churches

St Rita’s Babinda, 7am, Sun, 15 Church St, Babinda

Mother of Good Counsel, 6:30pm Sat Vigil, 9am, Sun, 90 Rankin St, Innisfail

Our Lady of Fatima, 10am, Sun, 32 Glasgow Street, El Arish, St John the Evangelist, 6pm, Sat, 4 Harold Street, Silkwood, St Rita’s South Johnstone, 7am, 1st, 3rd & 5th/month, 5 Green Street, South Johnstone

Christ the King, 7am, 2nd & 4th/month, 10 Harbour Road, Mourilyan Holy Spirit, Mission Beach 7am Sun, 12 Webb Rd, Wongaling Beach

St Clare of Montefalco

Church, 6pm Vigil Mass, Sat 9am, Sun, 13 Mars St, Tully

Our Lady Star of the Sea, 5pm Sun (except 1st Sunday), 121 Victoria St, Cardwell Ingham Region Catholic

Parishes:

St Patrick’s, 8:30am, Sunday, 18 Abbott Street, Ingham

St Peter’s, 7am, Sunday, 10 Scott Street, Halifax, Canossa Chapel, 10am, Sunday, St Teresa’s College / 3819 Abergowrie Rd

St Teresa’s, Trebonne, 10am

Seventh Day Adventist

Seventh Day Adventist Innisfail, 10:30am, Sat ,Bible Study, 11am, Sat, 114 Lawrence Road, Bamboo Creek Tully Seventh Day Adventist Church, Sat 9:30am Sabbath School, Sat 11am, 1 Edward St, Tully

Baptist Churches

6:30pm, Sun, Ladies Church Tully Baptist Church, 10am, Sun, 6 Plumb Street, Tully Cardwell Baptist Church, 11am, Sun, Bruce Highway, Cardwell Sugar Reef Baptist Church, 9:30am, S, “The Knightclub” 38 Herbert St, Ingham Baptist Independent, 11am, Sun, 77 Halifax Rd, Ingham

Uniting Churches

Cassowary Coast Uniting Churchs: Innisfail, 10.30am, Sun, 8 Scullen Ave, Mighell, Innisfail Mission Beach, 8am, Sun, 2224 Tully-Mission Beach Rd, Mission Beach, Ingham District Uniting

Churches: Ingham, 10am, Sun 16 Herbert St, Ingham Halifax, 8am, Sun 12 Anderssen St, Halifax Blue Haven Lodge, Ingham, 11am (2nd & 4th Tues)

Lutheran

St Marks Lutheran Church, 9am, Sun, 34 Townsville Road, Ingham

Non-denominational

Empower Church Innisfail, 10am, Sun, 191-193 Mourilyan Rd, South Innisfail

Anglican Churches

St Albans Anglican Church, 9am, Sun, 83 Rankin Street, Innisfail

St John Anglican Church, 5pm, Sat, 2 Black Street, Tully John Oliver Feetham Pioneer Memorial 11am, Sun, 45 Bruce Highway, Cardwell St John Anglican Church, 3pm, 3rd Sun of month, Motel Chapel, Kurrimine Beach

Holy Trinity (Ingham) 6pm Saturday Service. 9am, Sunday. 37 McIlwraith Street, Ingham All Souls, 7.30am, Sun, 10 Four Mile Road, Victoria Estate

LAST week we were fortunate to have Cairns-based SRA researchers Emilie Fillols and Dr Kevin Powell attend a grower's meeting to discuss, among other things, cane grub management.

This meeting was organised as part of the InnisfailTully GBRF project and was very well received.

Greyback cane grubs, the main beetle that is a pest of sugar cane, have been building up in numbers over the past 2 or 3 seasons with near-perfect weather conditions.

They are a native species and one of several different beetle species with larvae or grub as part of their life cycle. Most beetle species don't attack sugar cane; some actually prefer eating dead organic material, while others prefer lawn grass.

In the case of sugar cane, the grey back beetle larva or grub goes through three stages called "instars," where they chew and weaken cane roots which means at harvest, the whole plant comes out of the ground, causing a drop in productivity and extra soil coming into the mill.

Extra soil coming into the mill causes issues for the milling process. The two main ways we get extra soil are through Pachymetra root rot disease or cane grubs attacking the cane roots.

The increased incidence of grey back cane grub damage is occurring all over the sugar industry, not just in the wet tropics.

The quest to manage grey back cane grubs goes back to the very early days of the sugar industry when various chemicals were trialled, and of course, the cane toad was introduced as an attempt to gain biological control, which didn't work.

In the years after World War 2, we had access to a range of new chemicals known as organochlorines which were very effective for decades. Still, by the 1980s, there were signs that the grey back grubs were becoming resistant, so we were able to shift to another product, a slow-release insecticide known as suSCon Blue.

BSES and now SRA have undertaken a lot of research to manage cane grubs for decades. In the early 2000s, the chemical active Imidacloprid was introduced to the sugar cane industry, and it has also proved to be effective and is the only way we can really manage the pest effectively at the moment.

The way we use Imidacloprid in the sugar cane industry is to either bury it under the soil at planting or apply it as a side dressing, depending on whether we use a granular or liquid form, respectively.

At the meeting last week, we went through the various modes of action of Imidacloprid, and while a lot of this information has been around for years, it was a timely reminder of the best practice use of the product.

We were also reminded that the best way to apply the product is to use it on the high-risk cane grub soils, which are generally lighter soils that are easier for the cane grub to move through and the higher ridges and paddocks close to tree lines as the adult beetles often live in trees.

We were also reminded that the ideal rate is 1.11.4L/ha, and if using liquid to, apply at the final hillingup stage so that the soil cover is at least 150mm.

The information presented at this recent meeting will be repeated with several more industry meetings planned for July and August, and the relevant information can also be downloaded as the SRANufarm document.