Floods destroy Australian sugarcane but sweep away the rats
CANBERRA, - Torrential rain and flooding in northeast Australia may have destroyed as much as a million tons of sugarcane but ...
Queensland Country Life1d
Perrett: Flood impacts to be felt for months
The hit that sugarcane and horticultural producers have taken from flooding in the Ingham and the Burdekin regions will take months to recover from and might not be fully understood until harvest time ...
The Weekly Times2d
‘If we get another event upstream, we could end up with a big disaster’
Banana and sugarcane growers are calling for funding to help with replanting, after their crops were inundated by the past ...
The Australian24d
Sugar cane farmer hopes crushed as mills falter amid high prices
About 200,000 tonnes was left standing in the Burdekin region ... but will have significantly lower sugar quality, meaning farmers are paid less for it. Mackay cane farmer Steve McKeering said ...
QLD announces low-interest loans for flood hit farms, businesses
Low interest government loans have been launched to help flood-hit farmers and businesses rebuild, as estimates of sugarcane ...
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Groper Creek, the idyllic caravan park that's a grey nomad's dream
Tucked away in sugar cane country on the mouth of the Burdekin River is north Queensland's best kept secret — or so the locals say. Groper Creek is home to about 50 permanent residents and a ...
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QLD announces low-interest loans for flood hit farms, businesses
who put it at as much as a million tons of sugar cane lost in the disaster. Sugarcane inundated by Haughton River floodwaters in the Burdekin On Thursday, Queensland Regional and Rural Development ...