It’s the beginning of the end for Queensland's 2026 cane crush, with harvesters falling silent across the Burdekin and Proserpine districts today.
Just weeks out from harvest, Australia’s sugarcane industry has around 5 per cent of the fuel required to complete the crush.
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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 Australia’s fuel and energy security.
If you’ve filled up lately, you don’t need to be told something’s wrong. Prices are up, availability is tightening, and in some areas fuel is already hard to find.
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 seeking.