Sugar Cane Growing

A conservation group's plans to replant species from the World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest on land used for growing sugar have not won everybody over.

Only two states make it a requirement to blend ethanol into fuel, but Australia's sugar industry says making it a national requirement could shield motorists from future oil market shocks.  

Australia's sugarcane industry looks back on a century of representation as peak body Canegrowers turns 100.

When the Oldano brothers are not busy working on the family cane and papaya farm in Far North Queensland, they are out on the boat casting a line, a hobby they have made commercially viable.

Sugar beet has not been grown in Australia for almost a century, but as the need for sustainable aviation fuels intensifies, the traditionally European crop could be making a paddock comeback. 

Tully Sugar Mill in Far North Queensland is celebrating 100 years of crushing cane. For a town built on sugar, it honours generations of workers, growers and their families.

A deal between Mossman sugarcane growers and a mill 100 kilometres away has been deemed unviable, leaving farmers without a place to send their product after this season.

Australia's second largest sugar processor is fined $100,000 nearly four years after the workplace accident.

After years of mostly green harvesting, cane farmers around Mackay are reaching for the drip torch this season to get rid of old plantings that could not be harvested last year.

Farmers trial sugarcane for the first time in Coalstoun Lakes, a traditional peanut-growing region.

For more than 125 years cane growers in Mossman have delivered a crop to the mill for crushing, but for some this year will be the last.

The water from the once-in-a-century flood that wreaked havoc on Ingham and surrounding areas has receded, but the true impact is only just being revealed.

Technology using macroalgae and the sun's rays to purify wastewater saves a council in Queensland's north millions, while providing fertiliser for farmers and reducing nitrogen runoff to the Great Barrier Reef.

Farmers and their machines line up for a blessing from a priest ahead of the sugarcane harvest.

Two women from opposite sides of the globe connect to collaborate on a book about sugar cane that is being shared in classrooms around the world.

Determined not to let back-to-back disasters crush their celebration, Australia's wettest town is preparing for its 100th sugar harvest.  

When Arjun Singh moved to Australia in 2016, he could not find any locally made jaggery. He set out to change that.

Horticulture businesses were some of the hardest hit with strong winds causing widespread damage in orchards. 

Floodwaters have receded in north Queensland to reveal erosion craters that will cost farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair.

Growers rushed to pick, pack and truck their bananas out before the rain started, but say it will be difficult to restock supermarket shelves after significant flood damage.