Apprentices in the Sugar Industry

Apprentices in the Sugar Industry

Tully Sugar prides itself with having a long history in offering the youth of the surrounding community opportunity through our Apprenticeship program. We offer a rewarding pathway to a career in heavy industry. Sugar manufacturing, production of cogenerated power and...
Weed Control

Weed Control

After the recent rain, a lot of weed management is taking place throughout the industry. Here in the wet tropics, weeds and vines grow rapidly with the ideal growing conditions. One definition of a weed is just a plant growing where you do not it to and this applied...
Planting Time

Planting Time

Mid July of each year, we usually talk about planting time, and similar to last year, the wet weather in 2021 has held up some planting until this week. Sugarcane is planted as billets or “setts”, small pieces of cane usually about 150-200mm long that have one or two...
Tully Sugar taking care of local Age Care organisations

Tully Sugar taking care of local Age Care organisations

Tully Sugar Limited pride themselves in presenting their Annual donations every year to the Aged Care Organisations in the community. Pictured above is Andrew Yu CEO of Tully Sugar Limited presenting Churches of Christ Care Rockingham Aged Care Service representative...
Preseason CCS sampling and trial

Preseason CCS sampling and trial

The crushing season 2021 is going to be a very interesting one, with a rather different lead up given the amount of rain that fell in April. With almost double the long term rainfall recorded in April , but with still quite warm days the crop has continued to grow on...
Moddus crop ripener crop sampling.

Moddus crop ripener crop sampling.

It is amazing what a difference a week of sunny weather makes! The last 14 days of sun have done wonders for our crop after all the rain and now we turn our attention to pre harvest sampling . Since 2019 pre harvest sampling of cane is done in field, prior to this...