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| UpdatedCane growers in the north New South Wales say recent dry conditions have helped contribute to an excellent quality harvest with high sugar content.
Topics: sugar, crop-harvesting, agricultural-crops, pimlico-2478
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| UpdatedA tax on sugar could cut soft drink consumption by 15 per cent and raise $500 million for the budget, new economic modelling shows.
Topics: sugar, obesity, health, tax, government-and-politics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, woongoolba-4207
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| UpdatedCane farmers on Queensland's Gold Coast claim delays at the local sugar mill have left them $5 million out of pocket, fuelling concerns sugarcane production there is unviable.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, urban-development-and-planning, community-development, surfers-paradise-4217, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedSugar analysts are also resting easier after yesterday's plunge in commodity and equity markets. The ICE number 11 has been trading at a three-year high, with cane growers being paid an Australian equivalent price of more than 600-hundred dollars a ton for sugar. Queensland Sugar Limited's Dougal Lodge says after the volatility of the past 24 hours as the US election unfolded, trading is back to normal and there is an expectation of a further bounce in the sugar price. Meanwhile, Canegrowers boss Dan Galligan is left to lament the lost opportunity of the Trans-Pacific Partnership which now appears to be dead in the water. Read the full story here.
Topics: sugar, trade, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedThe likely torpedoing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership leaves sugar industry lamenting lost opportunity.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, cairns-4870
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is almost certainty dead and the global trade landscape is uncertain, after Donald Trump claimed a stunning victory in the US presidential election. Mr Trump campaigned on a proudly anti-trade platform, tapping into deep reservoirs of anger and frustration in the American rust belt where manufacturing jobs have disappeared. It is not clear what happens next, as Anna Vidot reports.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, agreements-and-treaties, trade, federal-government, environmental-policy, agribusiness, agricultural-subsidies, agricultural-prices, fruit, sugar, vegetables, wheat, agricultural-policy, beef-cattle, dairy-production, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedThe Turnbull Government is seeking to reassure Australians following a US presidential election that could dramatically change the global trade landscape.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, agreements-and-treaties, trade, federal-government, environmental-policy, agribusiness, agricultural-subsidies, agricultural-prices, fruit, sugar, vegetables, wheat, agricultural-policy, world-politics, beef-cattle, dairy-production, parliament-house-2600, united-states
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| UpdatedDennis Howe has never been afraid to take risks on his far north Queensland farming enterprise, but he's still getting used to the idea of being named a "farming legend".
Topics: bananas, agricultural-crops, sugar, awards-and-prizes, rural, walkamin-4872
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Topics: awards-and-prizes, sugar, woongoolba-4207
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Queensland's peak farm group is shocked and disappointed at the resignation of the state's Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries.
Topics: rural, sugar, beef-cattle, fishing-aquaculture, state-parliament, agricultural-policy, bundaberg-4670
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As grain crops continue to be harvested across the northern growing regions of Australia and planting begins, one farmer is urging his counterparts to keep in eye on their neighbours.
Topics: cotton, fruit, grain, oilseeds, sugar, vegetables, wheat, community-development, crop-harvesting, mental-health, springsure-4722
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A man has been charged after allegedly causing the derailment of a cane train at Ingham that resulted in a major cane crushing stoppage at the Victoria Mill on Sunday.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, rural, sugar, ingham-4850
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Topics: rail-transport, rail, sugar, townsville-4810, ingham-4850
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Sugar versus the Reef? is the provocative title of a new project by a north Queensland cane farmer and a New South Wales artist.
Topics: rural, sugar, mackay-4740
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Artist Lucas Ihlein and cane farmer Simon Mattsson explain their sugar versus the reef project. Read story.
Topics: rural, sugar, arts-and-entertainment, mackay-4740
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Experts in Mackay map out farms with drones to set up the technology for driverless tractors.
Topics: rural, science-and-technology, agricultural-crops, sugar, mackay-4740
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There are plenty of young people keen to invest in Queensland's farming future, according to the Queensland Rural Adjustment Authority.
Topics: rural-youth, sugar, mackay-4740
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Cane growers in Queensland's Burdekin say the Singapore-based conglomerate that owns every mill in the region is attempting to squeeze their livelihood from them.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, agribusiness, ayr-4807, giru-4809, bowen-4805, townsville-4810, home-hill-4806, qld
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Australia's biggest sugar milling company Wilmar wins a controversial vote to secure an extra seat on the board of Sugar Terminals Limited.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-marketing, agricultural-policy, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA Fiji opposition party wants the former executive chairman of the Fiji Sugar Corporation to face an inquiry into his handling of the organisation.
Topics: sugar, corporate-governance, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedSeven months on from Cyclone Winston, many farmers in Fiji are still struggling to re-establish their crops.
Topics: agricultural-crops, sugar, political-parties, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedA breakthrough in negotiations for sugar marketing choice is overshadowed by the likelihood a dispute on cane supply agreements will end up in court.
Topics: sugar, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000, bundaberg-4670, mackay-4740, townsville-4810