date:Aug 30, 2018
ising electricity prices.
Australia has the most efficient and highly mechanised sugar industry in world. But that efficiency comes with high set costs.
Growers can try to save around the edges, maybe allow a field an extra ratoon, but ultimately there is little we can do at farm level when India and Pakistan are dumping heavily subsidised sugar on global markets.
Mr Calcagno, who is also CANEGROWERS Cairns region chairman, farms 400ha at Bellenden Kerr with his son Luke. They supply about 34