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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Call for investment in farm best practice program
Queensland’s sugarcane industry has a results-focused suggestion of where the Federal Government could invest some of the reported $1 billion it is planning to commit to the Great Barrier Reef. “We welcome the news today that the Federal Government is planning new investments in projects that make a difference to the…
Signatures on FTA herald new sugar opportunity
Sugarcane growers are hopeful 2022 will bring new sugar trade opportunities following the official signing of the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA). “The signing of the Aus-UK FTA takes the Australian sugar industry a step closer to rebuilding what had once been a strong trading relationship with the United…
Sugar industry welcomes win at WTO
Australia has secured an emphatic World Trade Organisation (WTO) win against India’s price-distorting sugar production supports and export subsidies. Handing down its report last night, a WTO Panel found that India had export subsidies in place which were prohibited under trading rules and it recommended their…
Survey confirms growers at heart of growth
Hard work and a willingness to adopt new technology and practices are behind the positive results in an ABARES survey of sugarcane farms according to peak grower group CANEGROWERS. The Financial performance of sugarcane farmers 2020-21 report indicates improved financial performance and profitability for cane farms…
Taking the sugarcane story to schools
CANEGROWERS is urging schools across Australia to take a look at a new curriculum-aligned teaching resource on the sugarcane industry. “It is just as important for students in Melbourne or Sydney, for example, as it is for kids in sugarcane regions to learn about our industry which generates $2 billion of export…