A Sign of the Times
At the moment in Queensland, it's the sugar cane crushing season and one year ago this mill would have been a 24/7 day hive of activity. Plumes of steam would have been billowing out of it's stack, and delivery trucks & trains would be arriving by the hour along with the constant sickly sweet smell of boiling sugar syrup that would have pervaded the air.
Now with some overseas governments subsidizing their cane growers, a number of the local mills like this one at Maryborough have been closed down for not being financially viable. This leaves the local growers having to ship their cane to more distant mills along with the increased haulage costs.
A Sign of the Times
At the moment in Queensland, it's the sugar cane crushing season and one year ago this mill would have been a 24/7 day hive of activity. Plumes of steam would have been billowing out of it's stack, and delivery trucks & trains would be arriving by the hour along with the constant sickly sweet smell of boiling sugar syrup that would have pervaded the air.
Now with some overseas governments subsidizing their cane growers, a number of the local mills like this one at Maryborough have been closed down for not being financially viable. This leaves the local growers having to ship their cane to more distant mills along with the increased haulage costs.