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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.
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Latest News
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Scientist vindicated for stance against poor Reef research
Chairman Kevin Borg writes in the Rural Weekly this week that a Federal Court decision determining that marine scientist, Prof. Peter Ridd, had been unlawfully dismissed by James Cook University (JCU) in north Queensland for speaking out against his colleagues comes at an interesting time in the debate about how to sustain the health of the Great Barrier Reef. MORE -
Please sign the petition and #rejecttheregs
In the Rural Weekly this week, Chairman Kevin Borg urges every cane grower and farmer in Queensland to sign the Reef Bill petition (farmers.org.au/campaign/rejecttheregs/). More
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Call for investment in young people’s futures in the sugar industry
CANEGROWERS Mackay welcomes Queensland Youth Week this week (3-14 April) and celebrates the positive contribution made by young people on cane farms in the Mackay/Plane Creek community. More
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Reef Bill is an alarming grab for power
CANEGROWERS has told a Queensland Parliamentary committee that the State Government’s proposed laws on farming in Great Barrier Reef catchments include a massive power grab. More....
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Growers scapegoated by proposed Reef regs
In this week's Rural Weekly column, CANEGROWERS Mackay Chairman, Kevin Borg,points out the progress the district's growers have made over recent decades in preventing the movement of sediment from farms into surrounding waterways through trash blanketing and stool splitting. However, the Queensland Government does not acknowledge this but seeks to increase the regulatory regime on farmers through the current Bill before the Parliament. More -
CANEGROWERS Mackay helps to train more Queenslanders for jobs in the sugar industry
CANEGROWERS Mackay has been successful for the fourth year in a row in securing funding from the Queensland Government to offer training to interested job seekers to help them obtain positions in the sugar industry. More
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Celebrating Mackay’s women in cane on International Women's Day
On International Women’s Day, CANEGROWERS Mackay is celebrating the diverse and important roles played by women on cane farms in the district. More
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High water and power prices are undermining productivity gains in sugar
The State Government is currently driven by a blinkered agenda that threatens to undermine investment in agricultural infrastructure made by previous administrations for the sake of a short-term dollar, says Kevin Borg, Chairman, CANEGROWERS Mackay in the Rural Weekly this week. More.
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Farmers' hands tied by red tape in recent fires
CANEGROWERS Mackay has described how Queensland regulations tied the hands of Mackay and Plane Creek cane farmers in trying to defend their properties and wildlife habitat in the recent bushfire disaster.
In a submission to the current enquiry by the federal Standing Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources, CANEGROWERS Mackay said that during the bushfires in November 2018, 1016 hectares of productive cane land at an estimated direct cost of nearly $1.4 million to the industry, was devastated by fire. More...
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High priced water/power undermining advanced farming practices
CANEGROWERS Mackay today warned that high power and water prices were undermining advances in cane farm management practices, which would negatively affect not only the economy but also the environment. More...
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Canegrowers Mackay welcomes formal offer
CANEGROWERS Mackay today welcomed the announcement of a formal offer from major German sugar manufacturing company, Nordzucker AG to acquire a large percentage – 70 per cent – of Mackay Sugar with the remainder retained by growers. More ...
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CANEGROWERS Mackay applauds Government’s response to BRC recommendations
CANEGROWERS Mackay has applauded the Federal Government’s positive response on behalf of agriculture, to the Banking Royal Commission’s recommendations. More....
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Revised downwind aerial application spray zones for 2,4-D use in sugarcane
CANEGROWERS has been successful in achieving a review of the downwind aerial application spray permit for 2,4-D and an alteration to buffer zones set in October which made the application of 2,4-D difficult to manage in the Wet Tropics region. More....
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Smart Farms Small Grants
Smart Farms Small Grants is a $55 million competitive small grants program over several rounds to support the adoption of best practices that improves the management and quality of our natural resources and increases on-farm productivity. A total of $9.2 million is available for Smart Farms Small Grants Round 2. More..... -
Ergon Online Safety Inductions
Look up and Live!
Working in close proximity to powerlines, above or below the ground, has its hazards. Unfortunately each year, workers in the sugar cane industry come in contact with Ergon Energy assets. This includes contact with poles, wires and pillar boxes by vehicles and the loads they are carrying. Contact can also occur during harvesting and haulout operations, when moving machinery and plant from one location to another or when irrigating. CANEGROWERS Mackay offers an online Safe Working Near Electrical Assets in the Rural Industry induction that will enable you to be fully informed on all aspects of electricity. Please contact CANEGROWERS Mackay office on 4944 2600 for further information. -
CANEGROWERS Queensland's Current Activities
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The Billet
The Billet is CANEGROWERS Mackay's premium cane growers magazine delivered monthly to members of CANEGROWERS Mackay. The Billet consists of news and information specifically for cane growers and farming businesses. For advertising or subscription information, call (07) 4944 2600.