Tractor-ready and on the way to the 2026 harvest

Meeting the seasonal labour demands of the sugarcane harvest is a challenge every year. It’s one to which CANEGROWERS Mackay has been gamely stepping up for almost two decades, delivering exciting, highly practical training courses each May that get new workers behind...

CANEGROWERS Centenary year celebrated

IT STARTED HERE: Mackay Canegrowers celebrates 100 seasons of the Queensland Cane Growers Organisation: “I often say, Mackay is the centre of the sugar industry, and our Centenary, which begins today, really drives that point home. Our State organisation put...

2025 Crush passes the mid-point in Mackay and Plane Creek!

CANEGROWERS Mackay Chairman Joseph Borg said it is pleasing news that the halfway mark for the 2025 crush has now been crossed in both Mackay and Plane Creek Milling areas. “We have crossed the 50 per cent mark and moving towards 60%. We are not where we would like to...

Sweetest Schools comes to Mackay!

The Sweetest School competition is coming to Mackay, a collaboration between CANEGROWERS Mackay, MAPS, SRA Central Region and Mackay Show Association Cane Sub-Committee. It is an engaging competition where schools showcase their skills in growing the best sugarcane!...

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 that has caused crushing to continue into the wet season...