It says there has been a lack of communication from the State Government on its intentions to further regulate Queensland farming, but it says insiders within the environmental movement have told the lobby group that new regulations are not far away.

Canegrowers claims any new regulations have been "developed in splendid isolation to those people they will affect".

"More than one source has described the regulations as 'farmer bashing' rather than environmentally sensible," Canegrowers claims in a statement.

According to Canegrowers, another overlay of regulation on top of the already highly regulated industry, has the potential to have a dramatic impact on the uptake of good farming practices up and down the coast.

Regulation that overrides best practice is looking increasingly likely, it says.

In 2008 the Premier, responding to perceived pressure from the green movement, targeted agriculture squarely in a public relations exercise, when it announced as part of an election campaign that it would develop regulations to contain farming practices on the basis that agriculture was unsustainably impacting the reef.

At the time, there was a public outcry that the knee-jerk reaction was not based on science, but in fact politically motivated.

According to Canegrowers chief executive, Ian Ballantyne, prior to the State election then Minister Andrew McNamara made a public commitment to sitting down with each industry on a one-on-one basis.

"Since that commitment there has effectively been no meaningful contact by the State, despite numerous approaches by Canegrowers and other industry groups to engage with the State Government," Mr Ballantyne said.

"Written approaches to the incoming Minister Kate Jones have gone without response, and an invitation to the Premier to address the Canegrowers recent sugar conference was disregarded.

"The State Government was a no-show at the conference, which would have been an ideal chance to talk to the sugar industry about these critical issues.

"We are hearing that the environmental movement is well aware of proposed changes, but industry has been kept in the dark.

"We have a right to be worried when even the environmental lobby has expressed concern that the proposed approach is highly academic and cumbersome."