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  • 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
  • Key failings in the way governments have approached policy to assist the Great Barrier Reef have been exposed by the sugarcane growers’ organisation CANEGROWERS at a Senate inquiry in Brisbane.  Click here to view the CANEGROWERS Media Release.
  • 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
  • In this week's Rural Weekly, Chairman Kevin Borg discusses Australia's food security and how Australians should support farmers in securing reliable and affordable farming inputs to grow Australia's export income. More

  • CANEGROWERS has formed a sugar industry working group made up of representatives from all industry sectors to provide a united approach to any issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.On the local front, CANEGROWERS Mackay representatives are regularly in contact with Wilmar and Mackay Sugar management and are committed to harvesting the 2020 crop successfully. More

  • CANEGROWERS Area Committee Chairman, Joseph Borg, has congratulated Mackay Sugar for announcing the return of a plant loan scheme for Mackay Sugar growers. Mr Borg particularly commended the Company for linking grower requirements under the loan scheme to accreditation under CANEGROWERS' Smartcane BMP scheme. More
  • The exotic pest fall armyworm has been detected in the Burdekin in North Queensland.  More...
  • Congratulations to Mark Bugeja, a young Mackay cane grower who farms with his father, Tony, and uncle, John, on a 350 ha property near Homebush. Mark will attend the Next Gen Case IH Step Up! Conference in Bundaberg on 24-25 March, sponsored by CANEGROWERS Mackay. More
  • CANEGROWERS Mackay urges the Queensland Government to step in and freeze water prices for farmers pending a review and resolution of significant issues not addressed in the Queensland Competition Authority's recent report. In a letter to the Editor of the Daily Mercury, published on Saturday 7 March, CEO Kerry Latter explains: More
  • The major industry developments confronting sugarcane growers in the Mackay district in 2019 were reviewed at the Mackay Area Committee (MAC) annual information meeting today. More
  • All CANEGROWERS Members in the Mackay Sugar area are invited to attend their Mackay Area Committee Annual Information Meeting being held as follows:

    Friday 21 February 2020
    1.00pm
    Mackay Turf Club, 9 Peak Downs Highway, Ooralea 
    Dan Galligan, CEO CANEGROWERS Qld will be the Guest Speaker
  • CANEGROWERS Mackay is keen to hear from young members (aged 18-35) about what they believe are the opportunities for their generation for successful cane farming in the district in the 2020s and beyond. Simply by sending in their ideas by email to CEO Kerry Latter with their details, they will be in the running to win free registration and accommodation at the Next Gen Case IH Step UP! Conference in Bundaberg from 24-25 March. More

  • It’s official. The Central Queensland crush is over for another year. This week Mackay Sugar announced the last of the mills had finished for the year while Plane Creek Mill finished on 25 November.

    Mackay Area Committee Chairman, Joseph Borg, said on a positive note for growers all the Mackay Sugar crop had successfully been taken off. More

  • A fortnight later than last year but Plane Creek’s 2019 cane crop has now been crushed, with Wilmar Sugar mill at Sarina recording the finishing time as 27 minutes past midnight this morning.

    Chairman of CANEGROWERS Mackay and Plane Creek mill area grower, Kevin Borg, said growers would be relieved to finish the harvest, even if later than the ideal due to a few technical issues at the mill. More

 
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