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…
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.
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.
Queensland’s sugarcane growers’ organisation is disappointed AgForce is considering adding a new commodity group to its organisation to represent the industry. "We understand AgForce has chosen to go through a member consultation process on their proposal,” CANEGROWERS Chairman Paul Schembri said. “We are deeply…
Queensland’s sugarcane industry is proud to join the push for more diversity in agricultural leadership in Australia. In 2020 the growers’ organisation CANEGROWERS has signed up as a partner in a National Farmers’ Federation program which provides mentoring and training to increase gender diversity in leadership…
Sugarcane growers’ organisation CANEGROWERS is urging the Queensland Government to step in and freeze water prices for farmers pending a review and resolution of significant issues not addressed in a recent report. “The recommendation from Queensland Competition Authority that irrigators pay significantly higher…
Cane growers put the highest possible value on the safety of the communities in which we not only operate, but live and raise our families. For this reason, the industry has been working closely with the Queensland Government on the issue of Paradise Dam and the potential need to lower the dam’s wall due to structural…
Grower-leaders will have plenty of positives to discuss when CANEGROWERS’ eight-member board gathers for its February meeting in Gordonvale (Far North Qld) this week. Significant rainfall across the North of the state has brought welcome relief to parched cane-growing communities along Queensland’s coast, with some…