Cane Farming
Bundaberg Sugar is the largest cane grower in Australia and owns more than 11,000 hectares of cane farms, which produce nearly 750,000 tonnes of cane per year. The geographical diversity of cane farms in north Queensland and Bundaberg, reduces the impact of seasonal variation on the crop supplied to the company's mills.
In the Bundaberg area where rainfall is variable, extensive irrigation systems are utilised.
Each season, which typically runs from late June to November, Bundaberg Sugar's mills crush approximately, 4.7 million tonnes of cane supplied from a crop area of about 70,000 hectares supplied by 1,027 canegrowers.