Industry News
Angry Growers to Attend Sugar Terminals Limited AGM
Angry cane growers from around the state will travel to Brisbane this week to confront the owner of the Queensland’s sugar terminals over its plans to become an unregulated monopoly asset owner/operator. Queensland’s farmers have long trusted the operations of the bulk sugar terminals to the...
New QRIDA Regional Area Manager keen to help sugarcane farmers succeed
Townsville, Burdekin and Charters Towers region cane growers, meet your new Regional Area Manager for North Queensland, Glenn Henricksen. Glenn comes to QRIDA with more than 20 years’ experience in banking, finance and agribusiness, and is committed to helping primary producers succeed with the...
2023 ACFA Annual General Meeting
United industry representatives speak out on Sugar Terminals
Cane growers must unite to save Australia’s Bulk Sugar Terminals from being owned and operated by a monopoly interest.
A letter from your united industry representatives
After decades of QSL operating Queensland’s bulk sugar terminals on behalf of our industry,terminal owner Sugar Terminals Limited (STL) has announced that it will stop current arrangements with QSL and run the terminals itself. This announcement should ring very loud alarm bells for every cane...
Industry unites to denounce terminal decision
MEDIA RELEASE Industry unites to denounce terminal decisionKey sugar industry bodies have united to condemn Sugar Terminals Limited’s (STL) recent decision to terminate its long-standing Operating Agreement with Queensland Sugar Limited (QSL) and to call on the organisation to withdraw the...
2022 ACFA AGM
Harvesting Decision-Support Tool – Harvesting Trials
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Webinar: Screening for disease resistance
Marketing deadline looming
Queensland cane growers are reminded that they only have until 31 October to choose which sugar marketer they would like to use for next season. Since the introduction of Marketing Choice in 2017, growers have been able to choose whether they wish to use their miller or their industry-owned...
Mackay biorefinery pilot plant ready for take-off
World-leading technology has landed in Mackay, bringing Queensland one step closer to a $1 billion sustainable, export-oriented industrial biotechnology and bioproducts sector. Mercurius has finalised commissioning and is about to commence operations at their pilot plant that will use their...
Partnership to develop sugarcane industry roadmap
Charting a prosperous future for the industry and regional communities Sugarcane industry peak bodies and the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) are partnering to develop the first whole-of-industry shared vision and roadmap to 2040. The Sugarcane Industry...
Australia’s cane toads evolved as cannibals with frightening speed
The list of ‘deadly animals in Australia’ just got a little weirder. The cane toad, a toxic, invasive species notorious for devouring anything it can fit in its mouth — household rubbish, small rodents and even birds — has become highly cannibalistic in the 86 years since it was introduced to the...
O’Connell River irrigation ban leaves Whitsunday farmers in lose-lose situation
A North Queensland farmer fears the state government's snap decision to turn off the tap to a major river tributary will damage both his crop and the Great Barrier Reef. Tony Jeppesen said while a closure of the O'Connell River was expected, the move was made weeks earlier than in other...
Regional industry: How Wide Bay Burnett loses and wins
The Wide Bay Burnett region about three hours’ drive north of Brisbane has mastered the art of keeping skilled workers after industries shut by gaining new employers. It is also trying to recruit people, including students and grey nomads, to help industry and farmers deal with shortages due to...
Grower Pricing Update – August 2021
Raw sugar prices spent the majority of August rallying higher as the ever-deteriorating Centre South Brazil crop whipped the market into a bullish frenzy. At the time of writing, the October 2021 ICE 11 contract had traded from its monthly low of 17.74 USc/lb up to a high of 20.37...
QSL welcomes new Independent Director
Former auditor and partner at Ernst and Young, Mark Hayward (right), will join the QSL Board from 1 September 2021 as an Independent Director. Mr Hayward’s appointment has been made in preparation for the retirement of QSL’s current Chairman Guy Cowan, who will step down after 14 years on the...
Sunshine Coast distillery mix things up with sugarcane
In a mixture of Queensland firsts, Woombye company, Cavu Distilling, are using sugarcane to create two new spirits. Launching later this year, their Original Cane product, under their Sunshine & Sons brand, will use locally sourced sugarcane, Oakes & Sons farm, to create a sweet fermented...
Wilmar Sugar Australia postpones Invicta Centenary community celebrations
Wilmar Sugar Australia has postponed its Invicta Centenary community celebrations this Friday due to the ongoing uncertainty around COVID-19. Burdekin Regional Operations manager Paul Turnbull said the decision to defer the community celebrations until later in the year was not made lightly....
Sugar giant charged with industrial manslaughter after worker electrocuted in Far North Queensland
Charges have been laid against one of the country's biggest sugar millers after a worker was electrocuted on the job in Far North Queensland two years ago. Brett Quinn was killed while dogging for a crane that contacted, or came in close proximity to, overhead power lines while working on a...