Australia and the European Union are back at the negotiating table, with trade talks set to resume after a long pause. For those of us in agriculture, this is a moment of both opportunity and caution.
It’s been a big week in cane country. Harvesters are up and running in the Tableland and Bundaberg districts, marking the start of the 2025 crush.
Well, it finally happened. After months of talk, Donald Trump’s long-foreshadowed tariffs have arrived. And they’re not just broad, they’re bigger and more far-reaching than most countries expected.
As I write this week’s column, I am on a flight to Canberra, where I’ll travel to Parliament House with CANEGROWERS CEO Dan Galligan for a series of high-level meetings with ministers and senior advisors from the departments of Trade, Agriculture, and Environment. At these meetings we will advocate on behalf of…
We’re almost three months into the 2023 sugarcane crush and the big dry that our weather gurus predicted has yet to materialise. In fact, it’s been unseasonably wet in many districts over the past two months and as a result the harvest is weeks behind schedule, especially in some of our northern regions. Of course,…