The clean-up is just beginning for flood-stricken growers facing a hard road ahead in North Queensland, as the federal treasurer warned the disaster could nudge up banana and sugar prices.

CANBERRA, - Torrential rain and flooding in northeast Australia may have destroyed as much as a million tons of sugarcane but ...

Growers rushed to pick, pack and truck their bananas out before the rain started, but say it will be difficult to restock ...

Banana and sugarcane growers are calling for funding to help with replanting, after their crops were inundated by the past ...

The ladies of Women Against Cane Toads take matters into their own hands, going toad hunting to try and reduce the number of ...

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 ...

Sugar cane grows in warm climates ... A decade after Britain abolished slavery, Australia began its own slave trade, which became known as blackbirding. Between 1847 and 1901, more than 60,000 ...

Record-breaking floods across north Queensland have now turned deadly, with one woman drowning while being rescued on Sunday ...

Global sugar prices are likely to be affected by more refined sugar supply from India and Australia, according to analysts. India already started receiving sugar cane for crushing, part of the ...

Banana and sugar cane growers across the far north are bunkering down in preparation for up to 300mm of rain and wild weather ...