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Sugar market rebounds as prices hit 18-month highs
With sugar prices climbing at extraordinary rates in recent days, CANEGROWERS has urged Queensland cane growers to keep a close eye on the sugar market, stay in contact with their sugar marketer and remain focused on how their pricing strategy meets…
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Australian Canegrower - Apr 2022
Illegal dumping on cane farms must stop
Peak sugarcane organisation CANEGROWERS is seeking urgent discussions with local government amid an escalation of people using Queensland farms as dumping grounds. “It’s a huge and distressing problem for many cane growers and other farmers who are doing their best to produce sustainable food and fibre,”…
Australian Canegrower - Mar 2022
Welcome debate on problematic farm regulations
CANEGROWERS has welcomed the opportunity for the significant issues and concerns that surround the reef regulations imposed on farmers to be aired in the Queensland Parliament. “Through a bill introduced by Nick Dametto MP, the Queensland Government’s bureaucratic treatment of the state’s sugarcane growers has been…
Relief greets Queensland dam funding decision
In great news for Wide Bay region sugarcane growers, the final piece of the puzzle to restore Paradise Dam to its original water storage capacity has fallen into place. “Confirmation this week that the Queensland and Federal governments will jointly fund the $1.2 billion needed to restore the dam has taken a huge…