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 Life3d
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 Times4d
‘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 ...
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 ...
The Australian25d
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 ...
The Toowoomba Chronicle3d
‘If we get another event upstream, we could end up with a big disaster’
Canegrowers Burdekin director and Home Hill farmer Owen ... He believed one third of Queensland’s sugar cane region had been affected, and last year’s Cyclone Kirrily caused a one million ...