Ekka shows the city is still sweet on cane
Every August, the Ekka gives city and country a chance to meet face to face – and for us in agriculture, that’s a golden opportunity.
A season of contrasts and the strength behind it
As we approach the midpoint of the 2025 crush, it’s clear this season is shaping up very differently to the one we endured last year.
Positive steps for cane farmers — but let’s keep the momentum going
It’s not every week we get to talk about good news — but this one’s worth acknowledging
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Time for sugar marketers to step up
Earlier this month, a ship loaded with Queensland sugar sailed up the River Thames to the Tate & Lyle Sugars refinery in London. It was the first tariff-free shipment of Australian sugar exported to the United Kingdom in half a century, making it a pretty big deal. As a result, plenty of newspaper column inches,…
Advocating for regional Australians
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…
What El Nino?
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,…