QSL Weekly Update – ending Thursday, 25th January 2018
QSL – Media Release – New Trade Deal
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Category: KCGO News
The latest news from Kalamia Cane Growers and Kalagro for Members Only.
QSL Grower Information Sessions
QSL will be hosting Grower Information sessions on Tuesday 6 February and Wednesday 7 February. Details as follows.
Tuesday 6 February
3.30pm to 5.00pm – GST/ Growers Home accountants
Golf Club, Ayr
Have you accessed your QSL Payment Statement yet ? Need help understanding leading up to the next BAS deadline ? Got a general question about your Statement?
QSL will be running this session for Growers/ Home accountants which will include a general refresher on payment statements and treatment of CCS revisions.
5.30pm to 7.00pm – 2018 QSL Marketing
Golf Club, Ayr
Ginette Barrett, Treasury Manager will be providing a market update along with overview of 2018-Season QSL Pricing Options and pricing declaration date details.
Wednesday 7 February
9.00am to 10.30am – 2018 QSL Marketing
Canegrowers Hall, Home Hill
Ginette Barrett, Treasury Manager will be providing a market update along with overview of 2018-Season QSL Pricing Options and pricing declaration date details.
11.30am to 1.00pm – GST/ Growers Home accountants
Have you accessed your QSL Payment Statement yet ? Need help understanding leading up to the next BAS deadline ? Got a general question about your Statement?
QSL will be running this session for Growers/ Home accountants which will include a general refresher on payment statements and treatment of CCS revisions.
QSL are asking growers to register their interest by emailing [email protected] so we have an idea of numbers in attendance.
JOIN RP 161 FOR 2018 – FARMACIST
NQ Dry Tropics – Reef Trust Tender Workshop
NQ Dry Tropices – Reef Trust Tender Round 3 Workshop
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QSL Weekly Update
QSL Weekly Update – ending 19th January, 2018
QSL Grower Cashflow Forecast Tool
2017 Season CCS Varieties Summaries
Affordable Energy Plan
“The Queensland Government has introduced a range of initiatives in 2018 in order to relieve the burden of electricity costs on consumers. Summary of actions and incentives has been extracted below.
Queensland Government
Affordable Energy Plan: making electricity more affordable
We are committed to delivering stable electricity prices for all Queenslanders.
The Affordable Energy Plan features $300 million of initiatives from 1 January 2018 which will make electricity more affordable for residential and business customers.
Under the plan, electricity prices for typical household and small business customers will remain below inflation on average over the next 2 years.
Our actions in more detail
Under the Affordable Energy Plan we will:
- commit to keeping electricity prices below inflation on average for typical household and small business customers over the next 2 years
- deliver a $50 per year electricity rebate to all Queensland households over the next 2 years ($200 million over 2 years)
- introduce the Easy Pay Reward: a rebate for regional households ($75) and small businesses ($120) that register for direct debit and monthly eBilling ($15 million over 3 years)
- provide an energy efficient appliance rebate to help households to buy more energy efficient appliances
- offer no interest loans and rebates for Queenslanders purchasing rooftop solar and battery systems ($21 million over 3 years)
- remove solar barriers for renters ($4 million over 3 years)
- expand the Energy Savvy Families initiative to provide more low income families with access to monthly billing, digital metering and education programs ($4 million over 3 years)
- deliver the Business Energy Savers Program for agricultural customers and large business customers ($20 million over 3 years)
- remove the non-reversion policy for small customers in regional Queensland ($15 million over three years).
QSL 2018 Season Product Range – Nominations and Options
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“Wilmar Growers – 2018 Season
Growers who have chosen QSL as their marketer for the 2018 Season now have until 30 April 2018 to finalise their QSL Pricing Nominations for the 2018 Season. Details regarding QSL’s pricing options for the 2018 Season are featured below.
QSL 2018-SEASON PRODUCT RANGE
QSL has made a number of improvements to its pricing products and services for the coming season.
MORE TIME TO MAKE YOUR POOL NOMINATIONS
Following feedback from Growers, QSL has pushed the 2018-Season Pricing Declaration Date back from the traditional deadline of late February to 30 April 2018. This later deadline gives Growers an additional two months to assess how their 2018 crop is shaping up before they have to finalise their nominations to QSL’s pools. Nominations for the 2018-Season QSL-managed pools will be accepted from 1 March 2018, however growers keen to get pricing using the QSL Target Price Pool or QSL Individual Futures Contract Pool can nominate tonnes and start pricing using these grower-managed pricing products at any time.
MORE TIME TO CHANGE YOUR MIND
Growers who have elected to use the QSL Target Price Pool for the 2018 Season but have not achieved their targets, now also have until 30 April 2018 to take up the option to transfer their unfilled orders to other QSL pools. Growers in QSL’s Individual Futures Contract Pool can also transfer unfilled 2018-Season orders from this product to other QSL pools by 30 April 2018, as long as they have not priced any portion of their nominated tonnage.
NEW PRODUCT – EARLY-START ACTIVELY MANAGED POOL
QSL appreciate that their new later Pricing Declaration Date gives the QSL Actively Managed Pool less time to price its nominated tonnage. To counter this and provide an option for growers who’d prefer to keep a longer pricing window, QSL have introduced an additional pool – the QSL Early-Start Actively Managed Pool – which, as its name suggests, starts pricing two months earlier than the standard QSL Actively Managed Pool. To participate in this pool during the 2018 Season, growers just need to make your pool nomination by 28 February 2018. Just like the standard QSL Actively Managed Pool, the QSL Early-Start Actively Managed Pool is an in-season Committed Pool and has a minimum tonnage nomination of 10 metric tonnes.
Kalamia Members – Survey – Energy costs for irrigation
Survey – Energy costs for irrigation
“The National Irrigators’ Council, on behalf of the Agriculture Industries Energy Taskforce group, is conducting a survey in order to inform up-to-date advice to empower irrigators to reduce their energy costs for irrigation. For any growers that wish to participate in this survey please find link below.