CANEGROWERS members will join farmers from other industries voicing their anger at State Government moves to change Queensland’s vegetation management laws as a Committee reviewing the amendments travels to regional areas this week.  More.....

A series of CANEGROWERS workshops in March aims to keep large farm machinery moving through the complex map of rules and regulations for accessing public roads.  More......

A unique work of land art is being launched in Mackay this week. Watershed: The Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens Land Art Project is the creation of Wollongong artists Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams, in collaboration with a host of local farmers and community organisations.   More.....

At the Plane Creek Area Committee Annual Information Meeting held on 20 February, concerns were expressed over mill capacity with a proposed 150,000 additional tonnes of cane to be supplied by 2019.   More...

The Plane Creek Area Committee Information Meeting will be on Tuesday 20 February 2018 at the Sarina RSL. Guest Speaker will be Dr Barry Salter, Leader KFA2 Soil Health, Nutrient Management and Sustainability, Sugar Research Institute.

Queensland’s cane growers are starting 2018 with their eyes firmly set on meeting increasing market demands for sustainably produced sugar.  More.....

The Queensland sugar industry is set to receive increased access to Japanese, Canadian and Mexican markets after the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement was agreed to in Tokyo this week.   Known as TPP 11, the multi-trillion-dollar deal has 11 participants: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.   More.....

CANEGROWERS Mackay is calling on the next state government to commit pre-election to resolving the tangled web that is the current permitting system for the movement of oversize agricultural vehicles on the public road network.  More.....

CANEGROWERS is congratulating its members who are finalists in the 2017 Reef Alliance Awards.    More......

Sugarcane farmers organisation CANEGROWERS has thanked the Senate for voting down a misguided attempt to disallow the Sugar Industry Code of Conduct.  More......

How much more evidence do governments need before they act on unfair and crippling power prices?   More.....

With school holidays about to start in Queensland, CANEGROWERS Mackay is reminding industry workers, growers and the public to be vigilant on all roads as the Mackay and Plane Creek cane harvest passes the halfway mark.   More.....

The Queensland Agriculture Workforce Network (QAWN) is facilitating a new series of Workplace Essentials Workshops for farm businesses. While the previous Workplace Essentials Workshops focused on IR compliance, this new series will cover different topics, namely health, safety and supervisory skills and are aimed at frontline farm employees across all agriculture sectors.  More detailed information about what will be covered and the link to register, can be found here: http://bit.ly/2wLj36Q.   Only $30pp, with discounts for group bookings of 3 or greater.  

CANEGROWERS urges Senators of all parties to speak up and reaffirm their support for protections for family farmers and maintain the stability of a $2.5 billion export industry.  More....