Paul Robke – Mackay Paul Robke, a sugar cane farmer from Mackay, once considered the farmland just outside the city to be the best soil in the district. Yet, in Paul’s lifetime, this soil had undergone significant change. “If I go back to when we...
Aaron & Brian Butt – Oakenden, Mackay Aaron and Brian Butt are a father and son team from Oakenden in the Mackay sugar milling districts. The cane-growing duo are farming land of around 200 hectares and as you can imagine face many challenges. One of...
Manny and Matty Tommerini – Sandy Creek, Mackay Manny Tommerini grew up on his family`s farm just south of Mackay. His father ran the farm for most of his working life and now Manny farms that same land, with a suspicion that his son Matty might well want to...
Robin Godfrey began growing bonsai trees for purchase almost by accident. He started out buying for a previous business but came to the conclusion he could do a better job of them himself and as he tells it “Somewhere between then and now, the priorities changed and...
Trevor Cross , and Eddie Uridge from Northside Produce in Bundaberg, look at a block of Cabbages that were planted on a Katek custom blend. Eddie has been working with Trevor Cross of Cross Farms on a way to keep Trevor’s sandy soils producing high quality crops...
Sugar producers, Brett and Steve McKeering, from the banks of the Pioneer River at Mirani 35Km West of Mackay discuss their next move for their fallow soybean crop with industry experts Steve Newbery and Ian Faulkner. The nitrogen contribution from the beans will...