Sunshine Sugar

Here's to all of the incredible men in the NSW Sugar Industry. We are lucky to have so many hard-working men and women at our farms, mills and offices. hashtag #sunshinesugar hashtag #internationalmensday hashtag #ourgrowers hashtag #ourfarmers hashtag #nswsugar

WIN a Sunshine Sugar Hamper! Share your favourite memory of the Harwood Mill or a special moment in the Northern Rivers community to enter for a chance to win an amazing Sunshine Sugar Gift Hamper, featuring: - A special edition 150-year Recipe Book - A 150-year Harwood Mill History Book - Commemorative 150-year Sunshine Sugar calico bags and caps - A unique, locally made replica sugar mill flywheel - A jar of Nicholson Fine Foods BBQ Sauce made using our Premium Blend Molasses Plus, a selection of household-name food, beverage and confectionery treats made with Sunshine Sugar How to enter: 1. Like this post 2. Comment below with your favourite Harwood Mill memory or a story about our local Northern Rivers community Let’s celebrate the sweet moments that connect us. Enter now for your chance to win and share your history with us! #HarwoodHistory150 #SunshineSugarMemories #NorthernRiversPride #SweetHeritage #CelebrateLocal

With so many potential hazards on farms, it is always a good time to remind our farming, harvesting and transport partners to remain diligent when it comes to safety. From heavy machinery operation to chemicals, manual handling and mobile phone use – there are real risks that we all need to be mindful of, all the time. Mobile phone use while driving for example, affects attention and response time, hence it is against the law to use a mobile phone while driving on a public road. The same concerns are relevant when driving and operating heavy machinery on farms and private property. The use of a mobile phone creates physical, visual and auditory distractions because drivers and operators divide their attention between using the phone and driving. This type of driver distraction continues to grow as a leading cause of crashes. The heavy vehicle sector is one of the most dangerous workplaces in the country, with an increased risk of fatality that is some 13 times higher than other Australian occupations. Therefore, it is important that all drivers do everything they can to eliminate or minimise risk when behind the wheel – whether on the road or on the farm. For your own safety and the safety of those around you – we urge you to not use your mobile phone whilst operating in the field, on the farm or on the road. Find more information and resources on Work Health & Safety at: www.farmsafe.org.au https://lnkd.in/gJ3MJRXi https://lnkd.in/gBSYiQbF #sunshinesugar #workplacesafety #sugarcane #harvester #sugarproduction #staysafe

Yesterday Norco Co-operative Limited kicked off an important campaign, designed to champion the benefits of buying Australian Owned products and supporting our locally owned businesses. Research we commissioned earlier this year, highlighted the mass confusion that exists with shoppers. Despite cost-of-living pressures, many had increased their support for (what they believed to be) Australian owned brands in recent years, however a whopping 81% were unknowingly buying foreign owned products thinking they were buying Australian owned. That is because many of the household brands we grew up with are no longer in Australian hands, and those that are left are battling it out with cheaper, imported products in many categories, making it harder to compete.  Aussies back Aussies but, but we need to make it clearer for shoppers, which is why Norco joined forces with other great 100% Australian Owned companies – Sanitarium Mayver's Foods SPC Global Ltd and Sunshine Sugar - to tell all Australians that they can confidently add our products to their shopping baskets knowing they are supporting Australian Owned businesses. Because supporting Australian Owned businesses matters – its matters to our farmers, their regional communities, our workforce and the broader Australian economy – by helping to keep hard earned Aussie dollars wholly in the country. The Bring Back Australia app is also a great tool that shoppers can use. With a little education, we can all buy right, buy Australian Owned and keep it in the country. Michael Hampson Todd Saunders Bethaney George Peta Allsopp (MBA) Vivien Miller Ben Menzies Alissa Moes Yasmine Kon Haylie Marchant Kyra Shakspeare Rachel Thomas Sarah Jones Kingsley Haxton #buyaustralianowned #keepitinthecountry #buyright #100%AustralianOwned #AussieOwned #farmerowned #AustralianOwned

This is a huge week for Sunshine Sugar and the NSW Sugar Industry as we host a range of activities celebrating 150 years continuous operation and Australian ownership of the Harwood Sugar Mill. NOW OPEN. The Harwood Hall has been transformed into a Museum. showcasing 150 years of Harwood cane farming, sugar milling and community, and the Beardmore Tug and a range of tractors (new and old) are on display at the sugar mill on Mill Lane. SUNDAY 25TH. A huge Community Fun Day is planned for Sunday and includes live entertainment, cooking demonstrations, kids' activities, train rides food and a licensed beer garden. Plus, partake in the Hobby Horse races around the grounds of the mill.

The NSW Sugar Industry will host an information day designed for prospective cane growers. Topics covered will include information on how the industry operates, insights into financials, farming systems, harvesting, agricultural services and more. Attendees will meet people directly involved in the industry and have the opportunity to ask specific questions about what’s involved in producing and supplying sugarcane to the mills in the NSW northern rivers.   Wednesday 17th July from 10.30am Greenridge Hall 3765 Casino - Coraki Road, Greenridge, 2471 To register your interest, call 6620 8200 or email broadwater@sunshinesugar.com.au.

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Whilst harvested cane was mostly brought to the mill using waterways, road transport was also an important local network used in the NSW sugar industry.

With harvested cane arriving for the start of crush we feature a photo showing a delivery of full cane punts on the mill stringer in the foreground and an oceangoing vessel in the background ready to take raw sugar to the refinery in Pyrmont, Sydney.

How times have changed over the past 150 years. For over 100 years, the Clarence River was something of a water highway connecting the sugar mill to the cane farms.