2025-26
Overview
The CANEGROWERS Annual Report 2025–26 reflects on a milestone year as the organisation celebrates 100 years of representing and supporting Queensland’s cane growers. It provides a comprehensive overview of CANEGROWERS’ advocacy, member services, industry partnerships and achievements during a year marked by significant challenges and emerging opportunities for the sugarcane industry.
The report highlights work to improve grower profitability, strengthen productivity, expand market opportunities and advance the development of a domestic biofuels industry. It also showcases progress in sustainability, research, education and industry innovation, alongside the organisation’s continued commitment to delivering value for members.
Together with reports from the Chair, CEO and districts across Queensland, the Annual Report recognises the contributions of generations of cane growers while looking ahead to the challenges and opportunities that will shape the industry’s future. It also details CANEGROWERS’ governance and financial performance, demonstrating the organisation’s ongoing commitment to strong representation and responsible management of member resources.
The Audited Financial Report for 2025–26 is available to members via the secure Member Portal or by contacting the CANEGROWERS Brisbane office.
From the Chair
From the Chair
CANEGROWERS’ centenary year offered much to celebrate, but it also brought stark reminders of the pressures facing Queensland’s cane-growing families.
From a fuel crisis that threatened the harvest to disappointing trade outcomes and the end of cane production in Mossman, growers faced significant challenges – even as growing momentum behind biofuels and sustainable sugar offered new opportunities for the industry’s next century.
CEO Report
CEO Report
A century of achievement is worth celebrating, but it won't secure the sugarcane industry's next hundred years.
The 2025–26 year reinforced why profitability, productivity and scale must be at the heart of our thinking. Rising costs, fuel supply disruptions and uneven harvesting and milling performance continue to put pressure on growers – reminding us that CANEGROWERS must measure its success not by how much we do, but by the difference we make to cane-growing businesses.
Vision
The industry’s influential peak body, working effectively with growers, districts and stakeholders to deliver industry prosperity
Purpose
Leading a strong, profitable and innovative sugarcane industry, supporting growers and their communities with passion, professionalism and a unifying voice
Values
Accountability to our members
A focus on issues relevant to our members
Credibility, integrity and professionalism
Open and effective communication between CANEGROWERS, growers, industry partners, stakeholders and the wider community
Community consciousness
Goals
Superior advocacy impact
Outstanding service
Highest quality governance
Robust partnerships across industry stakeholders
Progressive and innovative industry evolution
Financial Report
To download a copy of the 2025-26 CANEGROWERS Financial Report, simply log in to the CANEGROWERS Members Portal and click on MEMBER RESOURCES > CANEGROWERS Corporate Publications
If you have problems logging in to the member portal, please email info@canegrowers.com.au or call 07 3684 6444.
