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Sugar market levelling but growers remain optimistic
17 Mar 10 | DESPITE global sugar price contractions this month, grower confidence and optimism remains high according to peak sugarcane group Canegrowers.  | Sugar battles start with bid ... | What's the best row spacing for ...
Sugar project verging on collapse
12 Mar 10 | ABOUT 80 jobs are at risk in northern NSW's sugar belt as a $220 million clean-power project nears collapse due to problems surrounding the Rudd government's 20 per cent renewable energy target.  | What's the best row spacing for ... | World sugar deficit grows 2mt ...
Cane farmers get reef law accredited
11 Mar 10 | WITH only 10 weeks to go before the next cane harvest begins, there are 1154 growers in the Mackay Sugar and CSR Plane Creek mill areas needing to be accredited to store and apply herbicide to meet the State Government's Great Barrier Reef Protection Amendment Act.  | World sugar deficit grows 2mt ... | CSR switches legal teams for ...
Sugar battles start with bid for Tully mill
10 Mar 10 | Tully Sugar has moved to stymie Maryborough Sugar's hostile takeover by revealing plans to list on the Australian Securities Exchange and buy the North Queensland milling assets of Bundaberg Sugar, signalling the start of a long-awaited industry consolidation.   | Bright Food may up CSR bid | Maryborough sugar coats offer
What's the best row spacing for cane growing?
09 Mar 10 | THE BSES trials over recent years comparing row spacings of 1.5 and 1.8 metres have resulted in an interesting outcome.   | Maryborough sugar coats offer | Outlook '10: Shine comes off ...
World sugar deficit grows 2mt bigger
09 Mar 10 | THE International Sugar Organisation has issued its latest forecast on global sugar supply and says the world sugar deficit in 2009/10 will be 9.4 million tonnes, up more than 2mt on its September 2009 prediction of 7.2mt.   | Maryborough sugar coats offer | Bright Food may up CSR bid
CSR switches legal teams for appeal
08 Mar 10 | THE building materials and sugar conglomerate, CSR Ltd, has changed the lawyers advising on its troubled attempt to split into two companies.  | Macquarie reckons CSR future is ... | New CSR chief to oversee ...
Bright Food may up CSR bid
05 Mar 10 | TWICE-spurned Chinese suitor Bright Food Group says it will sweeten its $1.5 billion offer for CSR's sugar assets in the hope of wrapping up a deal by the end of the year.  | CommentsComments (1) | New CSR chief to oversee ... | Outlook '10: Shine comes off ...
Maryborough sugar coats offer
04 Mar 10 | Maryborough Sugar Factory has been forced to sweeten its takeover terms for fellow Queensland producer Tully Sugar, offering a cash component to its bid lodged almost seven months ago.   | New CSR chief to oversee ... | Buyers get accreditation in ...
Outlook '10: Shine comes off record sugar prices
03 Mar 10 | THE knee-jerk reaction by some countries to the past year's explosive sugar prices will start to take the shine off what had been the best sugar market for 20 years.
Buyers get accreditation in Fertcare
25 Feb 10 | SUGAR industry advisers from Bundaberg to Mossman met in Townsville last week to undertake training to become Fertcare advisers. The training seminar was organised by Back Paddock, an agricultur  | Synergy fertiliser a new option | Predicting cane grub attacks
New CSR chief to oversee internal demerger
25 Feb 10 | CSR will have a new managing director from the start of April. Director Jeremy Sutcliffe will take over to steer it through a structural separation, as well as fend off a potential takeover from Chinese suitor Bright Food Group.  | CSR able to appeal on demerger | Macquarie reckons CSR future is ...
Macquarie reckons CSR future is Bright
24 Feb 10 | MARKET talk that Macquarie will soon be appointed to help Bright Food in its CSR sugar acquisition campaign signal that Brand China is fighting back from damage to its reputation flowing from mismanaged acquisition efforts, outside of the resources sector, in Australia.  | CSR able to appeal on demerger | Synergy fertiliser a new option
Predicting cane grub attacks
23 Feb 10 | DESPITE a lot of research having been done into greyback cane grubs there is still no way of predicting where, when and to what extent crop damage will occur from this destructive cane root eate  | Maryborough sugar bid extended | CSR keeping its options open on ...
Synergy fertiliser a new option
22 Feb 10 | FOR a new company to establish itself in the Queensland sugar industry as a supplier of fertiliser, it would need to offer something impressively different and that is what Synergy Fertiliser is promising.  | CSR able to appeal on demerger | Maryborough sugar bid extended
Maryborough sugar bid extended
19 Feb 10 | Maryborough Sugar Factory has extended its takeover bid for Tully Sugar until April 9.  | Rick sings for his sugar | CSR able to appeal on demerger
CSR able to appeal on demerger
18 Feb 10 | THE treatment of actuarial reports and definition of “corporate morality” are expected to be the main legal arguments advanced by CSR when it appeals against the blocking of its planned demerger next month.  | CSR ruling sends govt deep into ... | Court says no to CSR's $3b ...
CSR keeping its options open on sugar business
12 Feb 10 | CSR still maintains a demerger is the best option for its sugar business but behind the scenes, in tandem with appealing against a negative Federal Court decision, it has been talking to China's Bright Food about a trade sale.   | CSR faces new asbestos case | CSR ruling sends govt deep into ...
Sugar prices to remain strong: NAB
11 Feb 10 | AUSTRALIAN sugar prices have recently reached levels not seen for 30 years, driven by high demand from India and poor harvest progress in Brazil.   | Sugar regions hold chemical ... | Water quality trials on cane
08 Feb 10 | Cane growers are being encouraged to throw their hat in the ring to be part of the body tasked with driving the future of the sugarcane industry in Australia.
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