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  • This course which is scheduled to run on Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 May is tailored to sugar cane production, covering farm business, risk management, sugar marketing and pricing.  Topics are presented by CANEGROWERS specialists.  Feedback from the last 2 courses indicated that the subjects were well explained and easy to understand and the language was not too technical.  For further information or to register your interest please phone 4944 2603.
  • Celebrating women in agriuclture - UQ Skills is proud to announce a special 'for women, by women' edition of their Farm Business Management Skill Set.  The nationally recognised program is designed for farm business owners, managers or wokers wishing to learn how to manage a farm busness, including risk management.  More
  • CANEGROWERS Mackay is once again running a haulout training course, funded by the Skilling Queenslanders for Work Initiative through the Deparment of Employment and Small Business and Training, with 10 placements on offer. This 4 day course commences on 9 May.  Addtionally this year, funding has been procured through Queensland Agricultural Workforce Network (QAWN) for a further 10 placements, with this course commencing on May 16.
    Each 4 day course will train participants across four units of competency in the operation of cane haulage vehicles, tractors, operational machinery maintenance, and Workplace Health and Safety.  To find out more and to register for screening, contact  Shelley Dent or Peter Albertson at CANEGROWERS Mackay on 4944 2600.
     
  • CANEGROWERS is calling for members to step forward and nominate for one of the 81 representative postions in the peak sugarcane farming organisation.  More
  • CANEGROWERS has secured valuable recognition for Smartcane BMP-accredited growers through persIstent representation to the Queensland Government over its regulation of farm practices.  Click here to read more.
  • A shortage of cane haulout operators in the Mackay region may further disrupt the sugarcane harvest, which has already been delayed due to recent rain and mechanical breakdowns at the mills. More
  • Current developments in India’s ethanol industry have important take home messages for Australia. India wants ethanol to play a larger role in its energy mix as it looks for ways to reduce its dependence on expensive oil imports and cut its carbon footprint. Sound like a familiar national objective? Read on ... More
  • Electricity Tariffs
    15 February, 2021
    Click here to view a powerpoint presentaton by CANEGROWERS Head - Economics Warren Males on Electricity Tariffs.
  • A State Government move to impose a new bureaucratic process on farmers expanding their cropping area along the Queensland coast is unnecessary and duplicates existing regulation on the sugarcane industry.  More...

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay CEO Kerry Latter said today that the Transport Minister, Mark Bailey, should accept the Deputy Prime Minister’s request for more consideration of and a costing estimate for building an underpass on the Walkerston Bypass. More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay has called for schemes such as the GreenCollar Reef Credits program to work with the industry's established methodologies under the Smartcane BMP program to reward sustainability AND productivity. More
  • *NEW - Pricing Essentials for Cane Growers Program
    CANEGROWERS has teamed with TAFE Queensland and the Rural Jobs Skills Alliance to create a course for sugarcane growers in this new environment.
    The course will develop:
    *     the ability to better understand and interpret financial reports and costs of production
    * understanding of factors that influence commodity (sugar) prices
    * strategies to manage the risk of price fluctuations
    * knowledge of forward pricing tools and other emerging technologies and marketing tools
    * understanding and management of business risks

    Click here for a flyer which outlines an opportunity to learn how to increase your profitability.

  • A commitment from the Liberal National Party to reduce electricity costs and establish a set of new agriculture-specific tariffs has been welcomed by the peak sugarcane growers’ organisation CANEGROWERS.  More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay Chairman Kevin Borg today recommended that growers read QCGO’s election booklet which was released earlier this month: “CANEGROWERS Mackay wholeheartedly support the QCGO eight-point plan,” Mr Borg said. “It is an important election and we are seeking all parties’ response to the document. We believe the future of the industry largely hinges around this election.” More
  • The cane growing industry is proud of the ongoing success of our voluntary best management practice program, Smartcane BMP, writes CANEGROWERS Chairman, Kevin Borg in this week's Rural Weekly. More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay has written to all Councillors on the Mackay Regional Council seeking a year’s rates freeze at 2019 values for sugarcane growers following recent exorbitant land valuation increases. More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay has written to the Valuer General objecting to increased valuations from local Councils for farmland in the Mackay/Plane Creek regions. More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay CEO Kerry Latter has written to the editors of regional newspapers in Queensland welcoming action by the Queensland Opposition to attempt to halt the implementation of further, intrusive and unnecessary Reef regulation, drawing attention to the rate at which the industry is adopting the voluntary Best Management Practice program, Smartcane BMP. More

  • In his column in the Rural Weekly this week, CANEGROWERS Mackay Chairman, Kevin Borg, has thanked the Queensland Government for freezing irrigation prices for a year and absorbing dam safety costs. However, he said that since the government has not announced a new policy towards pricing irrigation water, this is only a temporary reprieve. More

  • Here is the Queensland Government's COVID-019 Update (3pm, 27/4/20). These will be posted as they become available. More
 
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