Nestled in the paddocks of a cane farm north of Mackay is an unlikely classroom. But it is one of Karinda Anderson's favourite places in the world.

Mackay’s sugar cane ‘cytogeneticist’ Nathalie Piperidis explains her work. Dr Nathalie Piperidis is a ‘cytogeneticist’. What does that mean?

As the rice industry's not-so-quiet revolution takes off around Mackay, agronomists and rice companies have had their say, but eventually it will be the region's sugar cane growers who make the ...

Dr Nathalie Piperidis is a cytogeneticist – she spends her days in a Mackay greenhouse, using a microscope to study sugarcane chromosomes. Read Today's Paper Tributes. Rewards.

MACKAY Sugar could have to repay at least $300,000 to independent bargaining representative cane growers after losing a landmark court case. The judgment, handed down in Brisbane yesterday by ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Until this year, Mr Stroppiana had 250 hectares of land under cane on the banks of the Pioneer River near ...

MACKAY Sugar has locked in new marketing choice arrangements with Queensland Sugar Limited, giving its cane growers choice in who provides their sugar marketing, pricing and payment services.

Strolling through their greenhouse, Mackay Junior/Senior High School students pick fruit and harvest other plants from the tropics – passionfruit, papaya, figs, and sugar cane.

Late in the morning Mackay Sugar employees were seen at a railway intersection at 241-255 Sugar Shed Rd, Erakala, with one locomotive off the tracks and several cane bins loose. A crane was used ...

EXCLUSIVE: CANE growers who successfully challenged Mackay Sugar's $2 a tonne levy are reeling after learning the miller intends to make them pay despite a Queensland Supreme Court ruling in their ...

Dr Nathalie Piperidis is a cytogeneticist – she spends her days in a Mackay greenhouse, using a microscope to study sugarcane chromosomes. Read Today's Paper Tributes & Notices.