Sugar Research Australia

01/10/2026

SRA Variety Development Team’s September update includes North, Herbert, Burdekin, Central, Southern and NSW. Pictured here in the North: the team planting FATs and harvesting CATs, with weather delays. Harvesting has been prioritised, but all trials are expected to be planted. Read the full Variety Development Team's September Update here: https://sugarresearch.com.au/variety-development-teams-september-update/

29/09/2026

29/09/2026

Week 17 Burdekin crush stats 📊

29/09/2026

Bundaberg Sugar Mill processed 47,353.81 tonnes for the week ending 27th September 2026. This brings the Season to date to 727,380.71 tonnes. The average CCS for Bundaberg Sugar Mill for week 17 was 15.69 CCS. The season CCS average for Bundaberg Sugar Mill is 14.95 CCS.

28/09/2026

28/09/2026

Proserpine Production Figures - Week 16
(for week ending Saturday, 26th September 2026)

Proserpine Mill processed close to 87,600 tonnes of cane for the week, bringing the season-to-date total to more than 1.14M tonnes.

Average weekly CCS came in above budget, at 15.13 units.

The highest weekly CCS sample for the week was 17.65 units, from a rake of SRA 9 plant cane in the Upriver productivity district.

With school holidays in their second week, we again ask parents and guardians to remind their children about the dangers of playing on or near the cane rail network.

Our cane trains work around the clock, seven days a week, so please continue to use your train brain and always take care around our network. A fully loaded cane train can take up to one kilometre to pull up.

Bradley Garner
Cane Supply Manager, Proserpine Region

28/09/2026

🌱 Fallow in the Crop Cycle

Fallowing can play an important role in a healthy sugarcane production system. 🌱

🌿 Benefits of fallow crops can include:
• Breaking the monoculture
• Helping reduce pest, disease and w**d pressures
• Protecting soil from erosion
• Improving soil health
• Adding nutrients and organic matter back into the system

There are a number of fallow crops that are suited to our Wet Tropics climate, including both legumes and non-legumes.

🫘 LEGUMES
• Soybean
• LabLab
• Cowpea
• Sunn H**p

🌻 NON-LEGUMES
• Sunflower
• Tillage radish
• Mustard

🌱 A well-managed fallow can be an opportunity to give the soil a break while setting the paddock up for the next sugarcane crop.

23/09/2026

For good greyback grub control: This video explains the set up and how it works for growers to adopt and best utilise for their sugarcane farming. The idea behind this is to do both ratoon and plant cane. This is set up for plant cane in the demonstration by Terry Granshaw (SRA District Manager).
https://youtu.be/Po2KqVJTmR4

For Australian sugarcane farmers. On-farm demonstration: Applicatio...

19/09/2026

Read the full story in Cane Matters Spring edition here: https://sugarresearch.com.au/cane-matters/