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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…
Time to mend fences in the sugarcane industry
Cyclone Jasper recovery grants extended
CANEGROWERS calls for urgent action on disaster funding
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Government failing on biosecurity
We’re almost three months into the 2023 sugarcane crush and the big dry that our weather gurus predicted has yet to materialise. In fact, it’s been unseasonably wet in many districts over the past two months and as a result the harvest is weeks behind schedule, especially in some of our northern regions. Of course,…
Milestone sugar shipment headed to the UK
Australia’s first raw sugar shipment to the United Kingdom under the new Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (A-UKFTA) was loaded in Townsville today, opening an important new market for the Queensland sugar industry. Under the new agreement, which came into place on 31 May 2023, tariff-free raw sugar…
Australian Canegrower - Jul 2023
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Is government failing Australians on fire ants?
CANEGROWERS is calling on the federal, state and territory governments to redouble their efforts to halt the march of Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA), following the release of a damning report on the failure of the current eradication program. The report, which has been kept under wraps for two years, makes clear…
Australian Canegrower - Jun 2023
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