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Hardworking migrant families helped shape Australia's sugarcane communities (opens the original)
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Writing about immigration can be fraught these days. There are plenty of opinions and strong feelings in the community. But recently, while recently taking part in the production of a coffee-table book marking the Canegrowers centenary, I was struck by just how much of our sugarcane industry - and the communities it supports - was built by immigrants. My great-grandfather emigrated from Germany, making my own family one of the countless Australian families whose story began with someone leaving
Ekka connects city to country and shares how cane is grown and exported (opens the original)
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Every August, the country comes to Brisbane for the Ekka. And for all the talk of a city-country divide, Brisbane always seems pretty pleased to see it. I was reminded of that again this week while spending a day at the Cangrowers stand. I lost count of how many people stopped by to share their memories of sugarcane. Some had visited a relative's cane farm or chewed on a piece of cane as a child. Others remembered the smell of a sugar mill during crushing season or driving through the regions wi
Losing herbicide without alternative risks more tillage, erosion and runoff (opens the original)
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Most people outside agriculture have never heard of paraquat - the fast-acting weedkiller used to control difficult weeds. So, if they heard that new restrictions had been placed on it, they'd probably think, "So what? There are plenty of other weedkillers out there." But paraquat's value goes beyond simply killing weeds. Unlike other herbicides on the market, it allows growers to control tough, glyphosate-resistant weeds in one pass. That can help avoid the need to repeatedly plough paddocks, r
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