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  • You are invited to CANEGROWERS Mackay Area Committee’s Annual Information Meeting - Friday 26 February 2021- 1.30pm at the Mackay Turf Club Event Centre, 9 Peak Downs Highway, Ooralea.  The Chairman and Members will report on the Committee's activities for the past twelve months.  Special guest speaker will be well known identity, Mr Meecham Philpott. To assist with the COVID-19 restrictions, please RSVP by emailing maryann_neilsen@canegrowers.com.au or by phoning 4944 2600 by 19 February 2021. 

  • A State Government move to impose a new bureaucratic process on farmers expanding their cropping area along the Queensland coast is unnecessary and duplicates existing regulation on the sugarcane industry.  More...
  • CANEGROWERS Mackay has called for schemes such as the GreenCollar Reef Credits program to work with the industry's established methodologies under the Smartcane BMP program to reward sustainability AND productivity. More
  • *NEW - Pricing Essentials for Cane Growers Program
    CANEGROWERS has teamed with TAFE Queensland and the Rural Jobs Skills Alliance to create a course for sugarcane growers in this new environment.
    The course will develop:
    *     the ability to better understand and interpret financial reports and costs of production
    * understanding of factors that influence commodity (sugar) prices
    * strategies to manage the risk of price fluctuations
    * knowledge of forward pricing tools and other emerging technologies and marketing tools
    * understanding and management of business risks

    Click here for a flyer which outlines an opportunity to learn how to increase your profitability.

  • A commitment from the Liberal National Party to reduce electricity costs and establish a set of new agriculture-specific tariffs has been welcomed by the peak sugarcane growers’ organisation CANEGROWERS.  More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay Chairman Kevin Borg today recommended that growers read QCGO’s election booklet which was released earlier this month: “CANEGROWERS Mackay wholeheartedly support the QCGO eight-point plan,” Mr Borg said. “It is an important election and we are seeking all parties’ response to the document. We believe the future of the industry largely hinges around this election.” More
  • Key failings in the way governments have approached policy to assist the Great Barrier Reef have been exposed by the sugarcane growers’ organisation CANEGROWERS at a Senate inquiry in Brisbane.  Click here to view the CANEGROWERS Media Release.
  • The cane growing industry is proud of the ongoing success of our voluntary best management practice program, Smartcane BMP, writes CANEGROWERS Chairman, Kevin Borg in this week's Rural Weekly. More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay has written to all Councillors on the Mackay Regional Council seeking a year’s rates freeze at 2019 values for sugarcane growers following recent exorbitant land valuation increases. More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay has written to the Valuer General objecting to increased valuations from local Councils for farmland in the Mackay/Plane Creek regions. More

  • CANEGROWERS Mackay CEO Kerry Latter has written to the editors of regional newspapers in Queensland welcoming action by the Queensland Opposition to attempt to halt the implementation of further, intrusive and unnecessary Reef regulation, drawing attention to the rate at which the industry is adopting the voluntary Best Management Practice program, Smartcane BMP. More

  • In his column in the Rural Weekly this week, CANEGROWERS Mackay Chairman, Kevin Borg, has thanked the Queensland Government for freezing irrigation prices for a year and absorbing dam safety costs. However, he said that since the government has not announced a new policy towards pricing irrigation water, this is only a temporary reprieve. More

  • Here is the Queensland Government's COVID-019 Update (3pm, 27/4/20). These will be posted as they become available. More
  • In this week's Rural Weekly, Chairman Kevin Borg discusses Australia's food security and how Australians should support farmers in securing reliable and affordable farming inputs to grow Australia's export income. More

  • CANEGROWERS has formed a sugar industry working group made up of representatives from all industry sectors to provide a united approach to any issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.On the local front, CANEGROWERS Mackay representatives are regularly in contact with Wilmar and Mackay Sugar management and are committed to harvesting the 2020 crop successfully. More

  • CANEGROWERS Area Committee Chairman, Joseph Borg, has congratulated Mackay Sugar for announcing the return of a plant loan scheme for Mackay Sugar growers. Mr Borg particularly commended the Company for linking grower requirements under the loan scheme to accreditation under CANEGROWERS' Smartcane BMP scheme. More
  • The exotic pest fall armyworm has been detected in the Burdekin in North Queensland.  More...
  • Congratulations to Mark Bugeja, a young Mackay cane grower who farms with his father, Tony, and uncle, John, on a 350 ha property near Homebush. Mark will attend the Next Gen Case IH Step Up! Conference in Bundaberg on 24-25 March, sponsored by CANEGROWERS Mackay. More
  • CANEGROWERS Mackay urges the Queensland Government to step in and freeze water prices for farmers pending a review and resolution of significant issues not addressed in the Queensland Competition Authority's recent report. In a letter to the Editor of the Daily Mercury, published on Saturday 7 March, CEO Kerry Latter explains: More
  • The major industry developments confronting sugarcane growers in the Mackay district in 2019 were reviewed at the Mackay Area Committee (MAC) annual information meeting today. More
 
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