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  • Have you got great cane this year? Please SHOW it! We are excited to say that the Sugarcane Competition is on again at the Mackay Show (15-17 June) and there has never been a better time to show the people of Mackay how proud we are about what this region can produce! Please put your entries in and don't forget that if your children win their section their schools' P&Cs will benefit. Our thanks to our sponsors - many of whom have taken up our offer to display their products and services at our first Sugar Industry Trade Exhibition. Please take the time to have a look at their sites and be in the running to win a $250 gift voucher from Tackle World! Sugarcane Competition entry details are HERE!

  • Mackay grower members - please come for a chat, a beer and a sausage at one of our Shed Meetings over the next week. Each meeting starts at 4pm. Demonstrations on grease, additives, coolant and diesel fuel treatment and how to manage the diesel bug will be provided on farm by our sponsor, Wynns. "If it's Wynns it Works." Full details

  • FEAT Online is a free tool for Australian sugarcane growers from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF).  It is designed to calculate machinery and growers' costs, compare revenue, and make better decisions to improve farm profit.  Users can test different farming options before making farming commitments.  Click here for information on Mackay/Proserpine Workshops.  Click here for Mackay dates.

  • Women from sugar growing regions around Queensland will travel to Mackay on 10-11 May for the annual Women in Sugar Australia (WISA) conference.  The event is hosted in a different region each year, with the 2021 conference being organised by CANEGROWERS NETWORK Mackay.   More...    Click here for the Registration Form.

  • You are invited to CANEGROWERS Mackay Area Committee’s Annual Information Meeting - Friday 26 February 2021- 1.30pm at the Mackay Turf Club Event Centre, 9 Peak Downs Highway, Ooralea.  The Chairman and Members will report on the Committee's activities for the past twelve months.  Special guest speaker will be well known identity, Mr Meecham Philpott. To assist with the COVID-19 restrictions, please RSVP by emailing maryann_neilsen@canegrowers.com.au or by phoning 4944 2600 by 19 February 2021. 

  • 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
  • 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
 
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