CANEGROWERS Mackay
Mackay Canegrowers Limited (MCL) trading as CANEGROWERS Mackay is an integral part of the CANEGROWERS organisation, the peak body representing Australia’s sugarcane growers in Queensland and New South Wales.
MCL provides services, representation and support to the majority of cane growers across the Mackay and Plane Creek regions on a wide range of issues including advocacy, marketing, water and electricity, workplace health & safety, transport, environment and best management practice, training and business management.
Latest News
CANEGROWERS secures payment for cane under 7 CCS
Despite current difficulties with yet another extended harvest season, CANEGROWERS' ongoing advocacy for members has achieved a strong result. We are pleased to announce that thanks to the tireless work of the CANEGROWERS Mackay Area Committee, Mackay Sugar has agreed...
Driving Change – CANEGROWERS unveils new transport guide
CANEGROWERS has today launched the 2024 Sugarcane Transport Load Restraint Guide, an essential tool created in partnership with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR). This industry-specific guide aims to enhance road transport safety and streamline compliance...
CANEGROWERS welcomes election of grower champion to STL
CANEGROWERS has welcomed the election of industry stalwart Paul Schembri as grower-director to the Sugar Terminals Limited (STL) board. The result, announced more than two and a half weeks after STL’s AGM due to a delay in finalising the voting process, marks a major...
Growers: your vote can secure our sugar terminals
Cane grower organisations from across Queensland have united to urge all growers who hold shares in Sugar Terminals Limited (STL) to make their vote count at the upcoming AGM on 20 November. In a show of absolute grower solidarity, this call-to-action is backed by...
Queensland’s leaders must act now to secure a biofuels future
As Queensland begins pre-poll voting, CANEGROWERS is urging the major political parties to break their silence on the urgent need for a domestic biofuels industry. For over 150 years, Queensland’s sugar industry has been a cornerstone of the state’s economy, employing...
A national biofuels feedstock strategy to give flight to aviation’s net-zero ambitions
Representatives from across Australia's agriculture and fuel supply chain have urged the Federal Government to immediately initiate a national low-carbon liquid fuel feedstock strategy to give effect to the ambitious agenda outlined in the Federal Government Aviation...
Time for warring parties – Unions and Wilmar -to get out of the way in mill pay dispute
CANEGROWERS is calling on Wilmar Sugar and unions representing mill workers to prove they are serious about resolving their long-running pay dispute by getting out of the way and letting the independent umpire decide a fair and reasonable outcome. After many months of...
CANEGROWERS slams Wilmar and unions
CANEGROWERS Chairman Owen Menkens has slammed both sides in the long-running pay dispute between Wilmar Sugar and unions representing mill workers, calling the current situation reckless and potentially disastrous for the industry. Read more.
CANEGROWERS and unions discuss ongoing pay dispute
CANEGROWERS has called on Wilmar Sugar and unions representing mill workers to do everything within their power to resolve an ongoing pay dispute that continues to disrupt the 2024 cane crush. On 1 August, CANEGROWERS Queensland Chairman Owen Menkens and CEO Dan...
Mackay growers call for certainty as Marian Mill underperforms
CANEGROWERS Mackay Area committee have said that, seven weeks into the crush, and Marian Mill’s reliability is at the lowest point compared to its performance over the past 15 years. Where the harvest should ideally be around 25-30% complete by the end of July,...
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