It has meant growers were unable to make the most of historically high sugar prices ... crop in the Burdekin region, said cane farmers understood that Australia’s mills, most of which are ...
Harvesting sugar cane by cutting is labour-intensive, causing many farmers to resort to burning. Burning worsens the air quality in the cool season, leading to high levels of PM2.5.
PhD student Jesse Gardner-Russell earns $20 an hour. Experts say low pay is turning Australia’s best and brightest away Laksa is Darwin’s signature dish. This is how it gets made on market day ...
ABOUT the middle of the nineteenth century nine-tenths of the world's sugar was obtained from the sugar cane. At the close of the century the proportion had fallen to about one-half, and the ...
Northern Rivers cane farmers aren’t sugar-coating their success after celebrating record prices and a bumper 2024 crop. Late last year, historical producers Sunshine Sugar – who are akin to th ...