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CANEGROWERS urges State Government to assist flood-hit growers with replanting costs

As north Queensland’s cane farmers face a disaster of unprecedented scale, CANEGROWERS is urging the State Government to align with other states by assisting growers with the cost of replanting lost crops.

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CANEGROWERS preps for impacts of wild weather lashing north

CANEGROWERS is working with the Queensland Government's disaster preparedness team, as severe weather threatens cane-farming communities across the state's north.

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Crushing end to the season

Another crushing season has ended, and once again, Queensland’s sugarcane growers are counting the cost of a broken milling sector.

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Time to bring the cane back to Queensland classrooms

There’s something truly special and iconic about sugarcane. Grown along 2000km of Australian coastline, from Grafton in northern New South Wales to the fringes of the Daintree in the tropical far north, it’s been a cornerstone of Queensland’s identity for over 150 years.

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Christmas Crushed: Delays take heavy toll on farming families

Queensland's sugarcane farming families will spend this Christmas counting the cost of yet another delayed harvest, with updated industry analysis finding that poor milling performance throughout the year which caused crushing to continue into the wet season could cost growers over one-hundred million dollars in 2024.