Canefarmers have doubts they can access 91,000,000 litres of diesel needed for this year’s annual sugar cane harvest which contributes around $4 billion to the state’s economy.
CEO of Canegrowers Dan Galligan said rising input costs were already biting.
“Current estimates suggest an additional $148 million burden for diesel and fertiliser across the industry. That’s not theoretical – it’s hitting our bottom line,” Mr Galligan said.
“We are in direct discussions with fuel and fertiliser suppliers, but certainty is low.
“Diesel supply is expected to be available but inconsistent and expensive through to late April.
“Fertiliser supply is holding in northern regions until late April but is already constrained from Mackay south.
“Recent developments in the Middle East have significantly increased uncertainty around fertiliser shipments. Expected deliveries into Townsville and Mackay within the next two months are at risk of delay or disruption.”
Canegrowers has convened a dedicated supply chain taskforce alongside industry partners including Australian Sugar Manufacturers, Sugar Research Australia, Sugar Terminals Limited, and QSL to track supply, identify risks, and push for solutions that will keep fuel and fertiliser moving to farms. This group now meets on a weekly basis.
Based on the work carried out to date, it is known that fuel and fertiliser supplies are tight across Queensland and NSW.
“We have determined that the industry requires close to 91 million litres of diesel this year, about 82 million litres across all on farm operations and almost 9 million litres for the transport and milling of cane,” Mr Galligan said.
“Harvesting alone will require 74 million litres across the May to December crushing period, with demand ramping up in the coming weeks.
“Around 130,000 tonnes of urea will be needed across the season.”
Canegrowers are focusing on practical outcomes, not just discussions and are consistently working with government to map when and where supply is needed, so distribution can be prioritised and managed more effectively.
“We are pushing for financial assistance measures, through government and supply chain partners, particularly around cash flow pressures in farming and harvesting operations.
“Leading a response across the supply chain from mills, marketers, and researchers to identify practical ways to manage supply risks and reduce cost impacts for growers.”
Mr Galligan said this was an uncertain and challenging situation, particularly when it came to availability and pricing of fuel and fertiliser.
“But we are at the table, consistently and forcefully representing growers. And we will keep pushing, across government and industry, to find practical ways to manage these impacts demonstrating the obvious need for a better fuel and fertiliser supply strategy – one that recognises the role our industry can play and ensures this whole situation can never happen again.”
Not yours Pat another used strong swear words. You did have f… in your comment. Ed
Editor cairnsnews said – “… Edited Pat…”
And then Editor cairnsnews said – “… Next time I will remove the entire comment…”
Sorry, Editor cairnsnews, but I have no clue what you’re talking about.
Only one comment under this article, and I kept a copy, it’s verbatim picture perfect.
Next time I will remove the entire comment. Editor
Edited Pat. Ed
puffin’billy said – “… you are playing in their f… sandpit…”
Indeed, it seems that some of us – too many of us – cling to a nostalgic paradigm of civility and procedural fairness in a world owned and run by genocidal gangsters and their armies of shit-for-brains hired mercenary assassins. A comfortable reassuring world view where appeals to higher authority are expected to yield just outcomes.
Which is rather short-sighted, considering that all the so-called “higher authorities” were hijacked long ago, positively infested from top to bottom and inside out, by corporate pirates all the way up the food chain all around the world to the institutions of supposed international governance, and all the way back down to the corporate council rackets masquerading as “local government”. Baby-eating mass-murdering mobsters one and all.
The dominion of our adversaries over us hinges on us being nice while they get to cheat, rob, assault, enslave, torture, poison and kill us. We write letters and protest our rights, we squeal and make noise and legal arguments while they fart in our general direction and plant us in shallow graves.
At some point, when enough people have nothing left to lose, Mr. Rope and Mr. Lamp Post will ride into town with the cure to what ails us, the One Ring to Rule Them All. That’s when we stop being nice.
In the meantime, we’ll just have to accept that everyone has to play out their fantasies and exhaust all imagined solutions before the reality of dealing with Luciferian gangsters finally smacks them about the head and lifts the lid on the brutal existential threat we’re all facing. We won’t be solving this unprovoked premeditated systematic genocidal war of aggression against all Humanity by writing letters and engaging our merciless sadistic utterly remorseless executioners with legalities.
Seems the Iranians have figured that one out. Apparently it’s gonna take us a while longer – maybe another five or six years.
Hardly any of you can see it…Pat can, Mr Nowhere Man can too…THE EVIL!
No more BLAMING ‘Swissyland’ crap Joe (not really a) Bogan. I am replacing it, with the truth…the ‘Cahilla’.
The ‘Cahilla’ rules the entire world. May have done so for about 9000 years but who could ever tell, with their systematic destruction of history over the last few hundred years. They write ‘the truth’, they write ‘the history’…
So curious about this ‘Swissyland’ you talk about. No one else does it. You continually misspell Switzerland, why, what are you REINFORCING? Are you trying to turn ‘The Protocols of Zion’ plan into something the ‘Swiss’ are doing against the rest of the f.. world? IDIOT.
Obvious bob…you are playing in their sandpit…it is THEIR sandpit…join with us and DESTROY their sandpit…please? The Jews have priority over the rest of us under ‘law of the sea’…Talmudic law. You cannot expect to win in their sandpit, while the bastards own it…
Ob bob, you are right, it is a war on food.
Limited access to fuel / fertilizer and high prices are symptoms.
Who is causing this? It is not some vast array of accidents. The in-our-face traitor-soldiers are smiling assassin politicians and the fawning legacy media sock puppets. Their handlers, the ‘worthy ones’, intend us great harm: neo-slavery or worse.
The criminal parasite class have managed to partially destroy the human gene pool with the Great Gene Reset 2021. They weaponized 1p36 Deletion Syndrome and injected it. That was the first pathology on Pfizer clinical trial data list from Feb 2021. h ttps://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
Re the anti-humanist psychos, their disrespect for the natural order will be their undoing. Each person can do what they see fit in bringing it down. Write letters, notices, petitions, attend protests, meditate to align with a higher resonance or whatever. Actions will differ but the underlying unity of purpose will affect. Alternatively, if you are really stupid, align with the dark side, greet the devils, cast spells, stick voodoo dolls with needles, take bribes, make blackmails etc.
Seeing most of the Qld sugar mills are foreign owned, bung it on them to supply the fuel to their farming contractors who supply the cane and the harvesters and the transport companies who cart the cane the sugar & molasses .
These foreign companies are most likely from countries that have a higher value for their currency than the Australian $ ,so they can afford to do so .
My most sincere commendations to Cairns News for STAYING GROUNDED
Can they do a “Give Send Go” for help with money? We need to help all our farmers. I’m in VIC, would give what I can. We all know the problem is this rubbish war, which will drag on and on until there are no farmers left in the western world, and no private ownership of petrol cars.
What do people think of Trump now? I know he’s doing what he’s told to do, but if he had any morals at all, he’d pull out of this “war”.
Even these corporate leaders can be such dumb arses. Cairns new shas published my Richard Marles breach of contract thing, but picking up on the reality of that accusation is another thing.
Tonight I have been composing a letter to the National Farmers Federation calling them out on their lack of roper representation of their paying Members al over Australia.
A farmer mate form near Swan Hill told m the NFF, VFF and associated rural organisations don’t give a toss about the farmers-that’s his opinion, and likely based on fact, as he is a totally realist.
In any event, my prototype letter, which will eb finished and sent in the morning, with a phone call prior, to alert the NF that my tome is on the way-in about ten seconds flat.
I have tried to contact the Keep The Sheep people, but they have no email address, and keep wanting to petition, which is just a stupid idea, as it will get them nowhere with a government intent on shutting everything down, likely as part of the well known war on food.
My letter, still to be finalised and sent. Their Media crowd is the only email address on their site:
Hello NFF
This correspondence is to inform you all of a number of issues related to the current fuel supply crisis
and the live export trade problem in Western Australia due to the federal government wanting to shut
down the live export trade in sheep.
What is pertinent to those issues is that the governments, either state or federal, cannot close down any
industry unless they redeploy the people in that industry to another occupation, so they they do not
incur any loss at all, or compensate those people in that industry fully.
You people should know that.
In regard to the issue, please see examples of government compensation paid out, which are legal
precedents that can be used in a court of law.
The McDonalds compensation example is prime in this regard:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/mcdonald-s-demands-super-size-compensation-for-losing-busiest-city-store-20190626-p521kd.html
McDonalds’ lawyers were also considering applying for compensation into the future, which is a legally doable thing.
A similar occurrence was the compensation aid out to Provan Hardware, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, who were required to move one street over, for the East Link Freeway that , in the end, did not happen:
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/state-forced-to-pay-millions-more-in-east-west-link-compensation-20190618-p51ytd.html
https://www.rennicks.com.au/victorian-legal-update/
So, as a registered corporate entity, your company-and you are registered as a Limited company on the ASIC corporate registry:
https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=77097140166
…the same liabilities are likely to apply to your operations and representation of your paying Members.
This means that if you are in breach of your corporate Charter, and are miss in your legal obligation to properly represent the best interest of your paying Members, as your Charter will likely require, all members of the Board of the National Farmers Federation (NFF), and all other relevant operatives inside your organisation, will, inescapably, need to accept full commercial liability for all loss, harm and injury perpetrated via any failure of proper representation for your paying Members.
The fact of the matter is that the NFF, as a corporate entity, must have indemnity insurance in place, lest it will not be able to legally trade.
This is an inescapable given.
I would therefore suggest that the relevant people at the NFF see to it that the Western Australian government be Noticed of their
commercial liability in the matter of the live export and other trades that are under siege-the fisheries, for example-and that they : the WA Government, as a whole, cease and desist form any attempts to close down any of the industries currently under threat of closure.”
Why the Fluff can’t other noggins posting here, interminably, do anything like this? If you can, I’d like to bloody well see it!!!
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