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Dear Growers
We are into our sixteenth week
and as of Friday morning Macknade mill has crushed 54,000 tonnes
at a CCS of 12.2. The mill planned a stop for 4 hours at 10 am
this morning to change shredder tips and the expected tonnes
crushed for Macknade this week will be around 70,000. Victoria
mill has crushed 87,000 tonnes of cane as of this morning at a
CCS of 12.98 and expects to crush around 130,000 for the week.
The mill has reported that the repairs to boiler 11
super heater tube were completed Wednesday morning and the boiler
was brought back on line after the planned maintenance stop. The
mill advised that the boiler being off line restricted the
crushing rate to around 850 tph for the three days taken to cool
down boiler, investigate issue and repair. Next week Victoria
mill will have a planned maintenance stop on Thursday for 12 hours
to carry out a chemical clean and normal milling and feeding
station maintenance.
As of Friday morning Herbert River mills have
crushed a total of 2.412 Mt which is approximately 62% of the
updated crop estimate.
Frank Scardamaglia
Manager
CANEGROWERS Herbert River
Email: frank_scardamaglia@canegrowers.com.au
Phone: 0475 818 800
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CANEGROWERS Herbert River Podcasts
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In our latest podcast learn more about an
exciting new water quality monitoring project in Hinchinbrook
Shire. The Department of Environment and Science (DES) project
titled ‘RP232 Fine-scale water quality monitoring in high
priority catchments’ has installed up to 40 additional nitrate
and sediment water quality sensors at locations throughout the
high priority Herbert and Lower Burdekin catchments.
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The Future of Farming and the Great Barrier Reef
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NCEconomics and Alluvium Consulting have been
engaged by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation on a project to
investigate innovative policy, financing and funding initiatives
for land management practices and land use transitions which both
improve water quality and consider the economic circumstances of
farmers. Initiatives which result in positive water quality and
economic outcomes are more likely to be sustainable and help to
provide lasting reductions in the impacts of poor water quality
on the Reef. To understand your views, we ask that you complete
the survey here or via the QR code.
This survey should take approximately 10 minutes to
complete. If you wish to provide contact details you will
automatically enter the draw to win a $100 gift card.
Any information provided by you for this survey will
remain confidential. Information will only be reported at an
aggregated and anonymous format.
Email for further questions: consult@nceconomics.com
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Don’t Waste Hinchinbrook
Photo Competition
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Don’t Waste Hinchinbrook Photo Competition is open
from today Friday 1 October 2021 to Sunday 24 October 2021.
Residents are invited to submit photographs that capture the
essence of “Don’t Waste Hinchinbrook”.
Help us showcase the beauty of the Hinchinbrook
Shire with images that inspire and motivate the community to ‘not
waste Hinchinbrook’. The best photographs will be put forward for
public voting and winning image/s will be displayed across the
body of the new local waste truck.
Click on the button below to find out more.
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Grower voices to be at heart of industry
roadmap work
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CANEGROWERS is working to ensure a specific grower
reference group is formed to assist in the development of an
Australian sugar industry plan for the next 20 years.
A project to develop an industry roadmap is being led by
Sugar Research Australia and being funded by the Cooperative
Research Centre for Northern Australia. The project will be
officially launched soon.
As part of the industry steering committee,
CANEGROWERS has been meeting with other stakeholders in the
research and milling sectors to discuss how the project will
proceed and a growers' reference group is high on our agenda.
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Blockchain testing with growers and mills
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Four cane growers and two milling companies have
joined the next phase of the CANEGROWERS blockchain
project. CANEGROWERS and KPMG have met with Tully Sugar and
Mackay Sugar which will provide specific data to support the
traceability of Smartcane BMP sugar using the KPMG Origins
platform. The aim is to test and validate the platform in
real time. Two growers from each mill area will also be involved
in the pilot.
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Workforce planning project seeks your input
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The Queensland Farmers’ Federation (QFF) in partnership
with Jobs Queensland is working on a Queensland Agriculture
Industry Workforce Plan, to be completed by early 2022. The
five-year plan will respond to the major issues reported by
industry while anticipating future workforce demands.
CANEGROWERS, as a member of the industry advisory
group Rural Jobs and Skills Alliance is providing expertise
and advice. There are several ways for CANEGROWERS members to be
involved - attend a regional workshop in Ayr or Atherton and
complete a survey.
More information is here www.qff.org.au/projects/agriculture-workforce-plan
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WISH Meeting
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Women in Sugar will be holding their next meeting in
the afternoon for those who have work commitments during the day.
The meeting will be held Thursday 7 October,
5.30pm at the RSL Ingham.
Those who wish to stay for dinner after the meeting
are welcome, the kitchen will be open.
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QSL Update
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2021-Season Target Price Contract roll
Any 2021-Season Target Price Contract tonnage which
was not priced by Monday 20 September has now been rolled forward
and an adjustment of -$9.91 cents per tonne has been applied.
This is in addition to the previous roll cost adjustment of
-$1.46 already applied for the July/October 2021 roll. This
means that 2021 Target Price Contract orders must now reach their
set target plus $11.37 in order to be filled. The next roll
deadline for this product is 21 February 2022. Click here for more information regarding rolling
and the 2021 Target Price Contract.
Early-Start Actively Managed Pool
The 2022-Season Early-Start Actively Managed Pool is
now accepting nominations. This is a QSL-managed pool that prices
2022-Season sugar in the same manner as the Actively Managed
Pool, but over a longer pricing window. Nominations will close 31
October 2021, with the pool's pricing window commencing from the
first trading day after this date. For more information on the Early-Start Actively
Managed Pool, please click here.
Video Sugar Market Update
Don't miss our next video market update with QSL
Treasury Manager Ginette Barrett. These 5-minute snapshots
provide a great overview of the key themes affecting sugar prices
for Australian producers, and are available to watch any time via
our Facebook page.
Market Update Podcast
Catch the latest sugar market and currency news in
QSL’s latest weekly market podcast by clicking here.
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