Post by NFA on Feb 28, 2024 4:42:34 GMT 8
Re: Mossman on the edge
The Editor
The Cairns Post
Mossman Mill is designed to produce crystal sugar and it does so perfectly well, (Mossman on the edge, 28/02).
The farmers who supply it are very good at producing sugar cane, which is the ideal crop for land in that area.
There is no shortage of demand for crystal sugar; it’s in a very high proportion of supermarket products. Sugar’s commodity market price is currently quite high.
The Mossman Mills’s problems have been triggered by managers seeking to “diversify” into biofuels for which there is no established market.
Those managers reportedly tried to have the government create a mandated market, a socialist idea that has never worked and which seems to have failed yet again.
The Labor government has shown little interest in the plight of Mossman and its cane-growing community. Labor’s local MP’s office reportedly said she had “no interest” in the matter.
Labor simply doesn’t care if a food growing community is destroyed by poor management decisions taken on the back of mistaken belief in Labor’s climate and energy myths.
(172 words)
Peter Campion
One Nation’s candidate for Cook
Tolga
The Cairns Post
Mossman Mill is designed to produce crystal sugar and it does so perfectly well, (Mossman on the edge, 28/02).
The farmers who supply it are very good at producing sugar cane, which is the ideal crop for land in that area.
There is no shortage of demand for crystal sugar; it’s in a very high proportion of supermarket products. Sugar’s commodity market price is currently quite high.
The Mossman Mills’s problems have been triggered by managers seeking to “diversify” into biofuels for which there is no established market.
Those managers reportedly tried to have the government create a mandated market, a socialist idea that has never worked and which seems to have failed yet again.
The Labor government has shown little interest in the plight of Mossman and its cane-growing community. Labor’s local MP’s office reportedly said she had “no interest” in the matter.
Labor simply doesn’t care if a food growing community is destroyed by poor management decisions taken on the back of mistaken belief in Labor’s climate and energy myths.
(172 words)
Peter Campion
One Nation’s candidate for Cook
Tolga