Innovation and insight at the heart of Sugar Cubed 2025
Sugarcane growers and industry stakeholders from across Queensland and beyond will converge on Brisbane early next week for Sugar Cubed 2025 – a dynamic, future-focused event set to spark fresh ideas and foster new connections across the cane supply…
Cross-border cane connection as Clarence turns 100
The CANEGROWERS Queensland Board is wrapping up its three-year term with a special visit across the border this week, heading to Maclean to help Clarence Canegrowers celebrate 100 years of representing local sugarcane farmers.
Fuelling Change: Don’t Let Queensland Lag Behind!
CANEGROWERS has welcomed Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki’s comments supporting the development of a domestic biofuels industry, during his speech to the Queensland Energy Club in Brisbane today.
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Is government failing Australians on fire ants?
CANEGROWERS is calling on the federal, state and territory governments to redouble their efforts to halt the march of Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA), following the release of a damning report on the failure of the current eradication program. The report, which has been kept under wraps for two years, makes clear…
Queensland cane crush fires up
The 2023 sugarcane crush is officially underway, with harvesters roaring into life across the Atherton Tablelands this week as growers, harvesting crews and mill workers start the race to get Queensland’s 30 million tonnes of cane cut and crushed by the end of November. "The weather is pretty spectacular at the…
Once in a generation sugar price
Queensland’s 2023 sugarcane crush is just weeks away and once again growers are heading into harvest with a sense of trepidation and optimism. CANEGROWERS Chairman Owen Menkens says a recent spike in the world sugar price, coupled with a drop in fertiliser prices, is setting up 2023 as a bumper year for…
Solving air travel's emissions dilemma
CANEGROWERS has welcomed Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s recent public vote of confidence in the sugarcane industry’s ability to supply the feedstock for a biofuels revolution in Queensland. Announcing a second Sustainable Aviation Fuel project in as many weeks, Premier Palaszczuk declared Queensland “perfectly…
Time to resolve sugar terminals issue
CANEGROWERS is calling on the owners and operators of Queensland’s bulk sugar terminals to put aside their differences and come together to find a long-term solution to the operation of these strategically significant industry assets. Representatives from Sugar Terminals Limited (STL) and Queensland Sugar Limited…