CANEGROWERS Around the Paddock
CANEGROWERS advocates on behalf of sugarcane growers in Australia. This podcast series examines some key issues and challenges and celebrates the successes.
CANEGROWERS Around the Paddock
Latest Episodes
Sugar Prices Are Below Cost So What Happens Next
Sugar doesn’t need a headline to hurt, it just needs to sit below the cost of production for long enough. We’re back with the CANEGROWERS Marketing Information Service update for June 2026, and the message is blunt: prices aren’t where growers ...
From global dominance to a shifting market
Jonathan Williams and Stephen Geldart from Czarnikow join from London to reflect on when Australia led global raw sugar exports and the challenge was finding homes for massive crops.They unpack how quality, logistics and relationships ke...
Talking Trade: How Middle East Conflict and Oil Prices Hit Sugar
Oil jumps, sugar slumps, and every cane grower is left asking the same thing: what actually moves the price from here? We sit down to unpack the March 2026 global sugar market update, starting with the shock coming out of the Middle East and wh...
Talking Trade: From Surplus to Strategy: Making Sense of a Softer Sugar Market
Prices are soft, tanks are full, and the sugar market is asking a hard question: how do you protect margin when the prompt is at life‑of‑contract lows but the future looks better? We dig into the turn from a multi‑year deficit to a sizeable sur...
Stay Ahead: Smart Sugar Pricing Strategies You Can Use Today
Queensland sugarcane growers have access to some of the world’s best tools for forward pricing – a system many international producers can only dream of. But having the tools is only part of the picture.How do we use them effectively? Wh...
