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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RFDS: Mental Health and Wellbeing on the Land
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has produced the booklet Mental Health and Wellbeing on the Land. A down-to-earth guide to mental health especially designed for people living on the land, it covers ideas for maintaining good mental health, managing stress, and...
2023 sugar cane crushing season about to start
Mackay Sugar, CANEGROWERS Mackay and Australian Cane Farmers Association (ACFA) have met and agreed on the start of the 2023 sugar cane crushing season. Read more here
Queensland cane crush fires up
Queensland's 2023 sugarcane crush is officially underway, with harvesters roaring into life across the Atherton Tablelands near the end of May as growers, harvesting crews and mill workers start the race to get Queensland’s 30 million tonnes of cane cut and crushed by...
Once in a generation sugar price sets stage for bumper year
Queensland’s 2023 sugarcane crush is just weeks away and once again growers are heading into harvest with a sense of trepidation and optimism. CANEGROWERS Chairman Owen Menkens says a recent spike in the world sugar price, coupled with a drop in fertiliser prices, is...
Solving air travel’s emissions dilemma
CANEGROWERS has welcomed Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s recent public vote of confidence in the sugarcane industry’s ability to supply the feedstock for a biofuels revolution in Queensland. Read more here
CANEGROWERS Mackay’s call out for haulout: trainees get to learn before they earn
The Mackay region is steamrolling towards the 2023 crush, and now is the time to get on board with CANEGROWERS Mackay’s Haulout Driver training courses. There is a high demand for haulout drivers at farms across the region during harvest season, and CANEGROWERS...
The Billet March 2023 Grower Profile: The Duncans
Lachlan and Stephanie Duncan are young growers who work in several sectors of the sugar industry, including research, harvesting and mill maintenance, and in 2023 will supply their first cane crop to mill. The couple recently told The Billet about their pathway in...
Bulk Sugar Terminal operation
CANEGROWERS Mackay Chairman Kevin Borg addressed the STL announcement that QSL would no longer operate the state's bulk sugar terminals in his monthly segment on ABC Tropical North's breakfast program with Meecham Philpott on 15 February 2023
Grower commitment to reef recognised
CANEGROWERS has welcomed the Queensland Government’s continuing support of the industry’s best management practice program, Smartcane BMP. Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Meaghan Scanlon has announced $4.47 million in funding for the...
CANEGROWERS Mackay CEO Kerry Latter on ABC Tropical North
Aired January 30, CANEGROWERS Mackay CEO Kerry Latter was interviewed by ABC Rural journalist Ashleigh Bagshaw on the subject of Future Foods developments for our region's sugar industry.
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