Biofuels make sense – so stop kicking decisions down the road

CANEGROWERS has welcomed the release of a parliamentary report on a sugarcane-based bioenergy industry in Queensland, thanking the committee for listening to growers and recognising the role the industry can play in strengthening Australia’s fuel and energy security....

Raw Deal – Sugar shortchanged in EU agreement

CANEGROWERS has slammed the outcome for sugar in the long-awaited Australia–EU Free Trade Agreement as a complete failure, saying it fails cane farming families and Australia’s sugar manufacturers and falls well short of what producers had been seeking. “This is...

Plane Creek Growers demand QSL independence

Plane Creek Area Committee Chairman Kevin Borg has said growers across Queensland are growing tired of conflict in the sugar marketing space. “The CANEGROWERS Plane Creek Area Committee whose members supply Wilmar Plane Creek Mill are disappointed at the outcome...

Competition not control – time to end conflict in sugar marketing

CANEGROWERS is calling on Queensland’s sugar milling companies to do the right thing and vote at next week’s Queensland Sugar Limited (QSL) AGM to end a serious conflict of interest at the heart of Australia’s sugar marketing system.  QSL is the industry’s oldest and...

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 on 10 July, opening an important new market for the Queensland sugar industry. View more...