CANEGROWERS Mackay

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

Peak sugarcane industry body CANEGROWERS is calling on Sugar Terminals Limited (STL) to explain the reasoning behind its decision to abandon a long and successful commercial partnership with Queensland Sugar Limited (QSL) for the operation of the state’s bulk sugar...

CANEGROWERS Mackay Chairman Kevin Borg has welcomed Queensland Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development Steven Miles announcement today (17 January) of significant developments for the Mackay region’s emerging biofutures economy. The Deputy Premier has...

Do you want to determine and understand your business costs of production & profitability? Do you have tools to determine what sugar price you need to cover your costs of production & make a profit? Do you want to better understand risk management & in...

CANEGROWERS Mackay, in conjunction with TAFE Qld, have developed this induction, and is an update to the course that was offered previously to our members. This course will provide you with a basic understanding of hazard identification, risk control, and risk...