News and Reports

Dear Growers, HCPSL is offering growers the opportunity to undertake early CCS sampling of commercial cane fields for 2022. Growers will need to undertake the following: Collect 8 stalks representative of the cane field. Stalks must be topped and stripped free of trash. Stalks must be tied off at the butt end of the cane Read more…

This year along with a CaNE Plan, Project CaNE growers will have the opportunity to utilise both an Electronic Record Keeping Tool and a Fertiliser Rate & Price Comparison Tool.   The project team hope that by providing an electronic alternative to traditional record keeping, it will allow for convenient, digital recording of applications for Read more…

Our friends at Cultivate Farms are changing the game for farmers ready to realise their farm ownership dreams.  Now open for applications, the Cultivator Investment ready program gets farmers ownership and farm investment-ready. Participants will be resourced and coached to produce a farm pitch, with a financial modelling, a three-minute summary pitch video and the Read more…

HCPSL is working with the Queensland Government Dept of Agriculture & Fisheries to Estimate the economic cost of Navua sedge to the cane industry. The Herbert cane industry is now seeing first hand the impact of Nauva sedge to sugarcane farming land on the northern side of Ingham. The research team has contacted HCPSL to Read more…

The RSD workshop is developed for Herbert region growers and planting contractors.The purpose is to provide growers and local industry with information on RSD including: What it is How it is spread What this means for an individual farm and the industry.

Think about getting your seed inspections done now and which blocks you may use this year. Inspection of grower seed blocks for planting by HCPSL has commenced again this year. Once again, HCPSL will be using the new qPCR method to check cane for RSD. The qPCR method uses DNA diagnostic technology to diagnose the Read more…