Work Wanted
Agricultural employers need to maintain a seasonal workforce while meeting their COVID-19 public health obligations.
To prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to have safe farm hygiene, you are encouraged to practice social distancing requirements along with other measures.
The persons listed below are not vetted by CANEGROWERS Mackay for their suitability. This and the on farm induction to your property and equipment is the responsibility of the employer.
Henna Kirjavainen - 0492 048 266
TYPE OF WORK: Haulout Operator
EXPERIENCE & LICENCES: C
Experience operating large machinery – orchard almond farm
COMMENTS: reliable and quick learner
Kevin Tarto - 0447 651 017
TYPE OF WORK: Haulout Operator
EXPERIENCE & LICENCES: C
Experience driving John Deere tractors aswell as other diesel machinery
COMMENTS: hard worker
Sugar industry speaks out: 10.39 per cent rates increase on rural properties reeks
Farming families across Mackay region are receiving unhappy news as rates bills arrive, being slugged with a 10.39% increase in their already high rates. Mackay Canegrowers and Mackay Sugar have spoken out against the Mackay Regional Council's recent volley of farming...
Ready to roll on Sugarcane Crush 2026
The first bin of cane of the 2026 Crush for the Mackay-Isaac region is planned to be tipped at Plane Creek Mill tomorrow [2 June], marking the start to a challenging harvest season that the industry is approaching with determination and care. Mackay Sugar has...
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 a...
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...
Disaster Assistance Available for Cyclone Koji Damage
CANEGROWERS Mackay has welcomed the announcement of joint Commonwealth-State disaster assistance for primary producers in the Mackay and Isaac regions following the devastation caused by the North Queensland Monsoon Trough and Tropical Cyclone Koji. The severe weather...
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 down its...
CANEGROWERS Mackay hails the End of Crush for 2025
It will be the first time in five years that all growers in Mackay and Plane Creek milling areas will have all been finished harvesting at Christmas time, Mackay Canegrowers Chairman Joseph Borg is pleased to say. “It will be a great relief to growers that we will be...
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 of a...
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...
Sugar industry speaks out: 10.39 per cent rates increase on rural properties reeks
Farming families across Mackay region are receiving unhappy news as rates bills arrive, being slugged with a 10.39% increase in their already high rates. Mackay Canegrowers and Mackay Sugar have spoken out against the Mackay Regional Council's recent volley of farming...
Ready to roll on Sugarcane Crush 2026
The first bin of cane of the 2026 Crush for the Mackay-Isaac region is planned to be tipped at Plane Creek Mill tomorrow [2 June], marking the start to a challenging harvest season that the industry is approaching with determination and care. Mackay Sugar has...
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 a...
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...
Disaster Assistance Available for Cyclone Koji Damage
CANEGROWERS Mackay has welcomed the announcement of joint Commonwealth-State disaster assistance for primary producers in the Mackay and Isaac regions following the devastation caused by the North Queensland Monsoon Trough and Tropical Cyclone Koji. The severe weather...
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 down its...
CANEGROWERS Mackay hails the End of Crush for 2025
It will be the first time in five years that all growers in Mackay and Plane Creek milling areas will have all been finished harvesting at Christmas time, Mackay Canegrowers Chairman Joseph Borg is pleased to say. “It will be a great relief to growers that we will be...
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 of a...
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...
