Message from John Tait – Wilmar

Hi all,

Storms across the region yesterday afternoon and overnight delivered falls of between 5-40mm. Harvesting has been significantly impacted.

Kalamia:

  • 10-15mm of rain overnight
  • 400 bins left unfilled yesterday.
  • Out of cane 2:30am, expected restart 10am
  • 3 groups not cutting today due to missed burns
  • Slow progress due to wet conditions

Inkerman:

  • 10-40mm of rain overnight
  • Zero hour will be later this morning, currently stopped due to impact of very dirty rake of bins
  • 9 harvesters cutting today expecting about 5000 tonnes
  • Restart will depend on progress of harvesting

Pioneer

  • Some showers overnight, probably faired better than other areas
  • Zero hour will be about 8:30am
  • Harvesting has been affected through inability to burn for some groups. Some cutting green
  • Expected loading about 10,000 tonnes
  • Mill will do a caustic clean today while waiting for enough cane supply and restart later this afternoon

Invicta

  • Anywhere between 5-40mm of rain overnight mainly in the Clare/Millaroo area
  • Zero hour will be about midday
  • Loading about 20,400 tonnes
  • Slow progress due to wet conditions

Cane quality is still a major concern. Hopefully the last of the storms for a bit

Kind regards,

 

John Tait

Cane Supply Manager

Wilmar Sugar Australia Limited

Burdekin Cane Supply and Transport

Sir Russell Drysdale Drive

Home Hill QLD 4806  Australia

Direct line    +61 7 4782 3802

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Wilmar Daily Loading Advice & Crushing Update

Loading Advice – Thursday, 27th October 2022

INVICTA – 6 841

KALAMIA – 6 382

PIONEER – 3 840

INKERMAN – 1 283

TOTAL – 18 346

Good morning all,

Late storms yesterday have complicated things somewhat.

  1. Pioneer started crushing the cane that was harvested yesterday this morning at about 7am. Contractors are still looking around and will start harvesting throughout the morning, actual loading is still being determined.
  2. Kalamia was scheduled to start at 4am but bagasse belt issues have put that back to 10am. Reports of between 4 and 20mm means that only 6 harvesters are showing any interest in cutting.
  3. Invicta has a zero hour around midday and there are a number of harvesters expressing an interest in starting later in the morning. Invicta is going to shut down after zero hour while waiting for today’s cane to do some necessary work. We may even transfer some cane to Kalamia to increase their supply
  4. No harvesting at Inkerman today. Reports of between 2 and 16mm from the storms yesterday. LO’s will ring around today to see who will cut tomorrow for a Saturday start.

More showers and storms are predicted for this afternoon so watch this space.

Kind regards,

 

John Tait

Cane Supply Manager