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The latest news from Kalamia Cane Growers and Kalagro for Members Only.

MEMBERS NOTICE – Upcoming email information change

Kalagro

Upcoming Member Emails Change Advice

Kalamia Cane Grower members are advised that after 1st October 2016 KCGO’s emailing process will change.

Emails that are currently sent advising members of member notices and information regarding important sugar industry news will be linked to our new Kalagro website where only our members have exclusive viewing.

The link in your email that you click to open notices (as you do with the QSL Updates) will be opening to the new KCGO website.

Here, members log in to view the content of the email by clicking the KCGO Member News tab.

This will allow more information to be made available to you from the one place –

Kalamia’s Information Hub – which includes:

·         Magazine editions

·         Member Classifieds

Also:   General Information – which includes:

·         Daily Sugar Prices

·         Kalagro Fuel Prices

·         Headland Talk

To make sure you can access the exclusive member only information as well as the websites’ many sugar related general news, you are invited to register as a KCGO website member user in the manner described in the August edition of ‘What a Sweet Life’ magazine.

Please call the office if you require our assistance with this process.

CSA UPDATE

Kalagro

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Dear Kalamia Members,

CSA Update

Dear members,

KCGO and BDCG met with all the other industry groups in Townsville on Monday to exchange information as to where we were with our respective discussions with Wilmar and to hear where the grower groups supplying the BIM ( Bundaberg Isis and Maryborough) mills saw the OSA discussions between QSL and the BIM mills as heading.

All felt frustration about where they were up to with their Wilmar discussion/negotiations and BDCG is probably more advanced in our position than any of those groups.
BDCG’s position will be advanced again on Monday when KCGO and BDCG are meeting with Wilmar in Brisbane to discuss the changes we have proposed to their Agreements and to push ours again.

A positive outcome from this meeting is critical and given the delays to accessing Forward Pricing that you have all had to bear already, further delays will not be seen as acceptable.

We assure you we will be using our best endeavours to get you a result as quickly as possible.

MEMBER NOTICE – CSA UPDATE

Kalagro

CSA Update

 Dear members,

 As you are aware from emails from John Pratt and Greg Beashel, resolution of an On Sale Agreement (OSA) between them has stalled.

 KCGO through BDCG is continuing in its efforts to seek agreement with Wilmar on a Cane Supply Agreement (CSA). You have seen the letter from our solicitor advising that BDCGs version of agreements does satisfy the requirements of the Real Choice in Marketing amendments to the Act and this rebuts Wilmar’s assertion that they did not.

 However the advice does not conclude the Wilmar documents do not satisfy those requirements, so we do not have straightforward path to achieve our preferred outcome.

 Whilst BDCG’s version of agreements provides cover for QSL in so far as setting the key terms QSL says it needs in an OSA in order to be able to offer GEI Marketing Services, Wilmar’s version specifically isolates the OSA from the CSA.

 We are hoping to meet with Wilmar a few days after BDCG has presented its edited version of the Wilmar agreements back to them. That will hopefully occur as soon as we clarify a couple of matters with our solicitor.

 So that leaves BDCG with 2 paths to go down, one of negotiating with a possible follow on of arbitration and legal actions, and the other to take protective action against any political push to repeal the Real Choice in Marketing legislation by conducting a media and public relations campaign to bolster support for BDCG’s position and the legislation amongst politicians.

 KCGO has already invested significant sums with BDCG to get to where we are with our legal understanding and agreements, and will do so again to enable both the negotiation and the media and PR to progress to the next stage, but the Directors advise that if the next negotiation with Wilmar is not successful and the only path forward requires further KCGO to support BDCG further then a general levy will have to be struck to fund the legal and media costs in the manner Invicta (ICGO) has already done with its members. read more