Cane growers – Mid East conflict biting hard
Just weeks out from harvest, Australia’s sugarcane industry has around 5 per cent of the fuel required to complete the crush.
Biofuels make sense – so stop kicking decisions down the road
CANEGROWERS has welcomed the release of a parliamentary report on a sugarcane-based bioenergy industry in Queensland, thanking the committee for listening to growers and recognising the role the industry can play in strengthening…
Raw Deal - Sugar shortchanged in EU deal
CANEGROWERS has slammed the outcome for sugar in the long-awaited Australia–EU Free Trade Agreement as a complete failure, saying it fails cane farming families and Australian sugar manufacturers and falls well short of what producers had been…
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Test ban risks stranding sugarcane harvest
CANEGROWERS is urging a commonsense, pragmatic and risk-based approach to prevent Queensland sugarcane being stranded at the roadside because of the state’s blanket ban on all driver testing during the coronavirus pandemic. CANEGROWERS is using every advocacy opportunity and putting forward suggestions which would…
Commitment keeps harvest on track during pandemic
Growers can face the 2020 sugarcane season with confidence given the hours of work by their CANEGROWERS staff and elected representatives. “The harvest is due to start in late May and we are optimistic that it will do so in a way that keeps our people safe and meets government requirements around minimising the…
AgForce move means division not unity
CANEGROWERS Chairman Paul Schembri says AgForce is promoting division and distraction within agriculture in Queensland with its plan to move into sugarcane industry representation. "It is disappointing that rather than building on the historic collaboration and cooperation CANEGROWERS and AgForce have shared, the…
Code delivers result for Tully growers
Tully sugarcane growers are relieved they will start the 2020 harvest with a workable contract to supply their local sugar mill after arbitration broke an 18-month long deadlock in negotiations with its owners. Backed by members, the CANEGROWERS Tully leadership instigated arbitration under a provision of the Federal…
Farmers demand no more delays to dam plan
Sugarcane growers in the Childers region are calling for urgent and serious work to determine how Paradise Dam can be fixed now – without its wall being reduced in height. CANEGROWERS Isis Chairman Mark Mammino says he acknowledges and welcomes the recent report by engineer Dr Paul Rizzo and his view that the dam,…