QSL Weekly Overview – 28th January 2020

28 January 2020

Welcome to your weekly overview of QSL news and information.

QSL Pre-Crush Advance payment option
opens 1 February 2020
Do you need increased cash flow prior to harvest?
Click here for details

FEBRUARY PRICING DEADLINES (2019 Season)

QSL Individual Futures Contract (IFC): The pricing completion date for the MAR20 Contract is 14 February 2020. Click here for details.
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QSL Target Price Contract (TPP): Any unfilled 2019-Season orders remaining after 20 February 2020 will be rolled to the MAY20 Contract and costs may apply. Click here fore details.
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MSF Sugar milling districts: Your pricing completion date for the 2019-Season Target Price Contract is 20 February 2020.

2020 study tour to Japan
Discover the delights of Osaka and its surrounding districts on this year’s QSL study tour to Japan. This small-group trip will explore the sugar refineries and port facilities in the Keihanshin region of Japan’s south-west coast. Numbers are strictly limited, with Expressions of Interest closing on Friday 29 February 2020 for a tour departure in late May. Please click here for more details. To register your interest, contact Sonia Ball on 0418 978 120 or email [email protected].

Monthly Market Update with Matt Page
There’s been plenty of action on the sugar market during the past month, with improved prices sparking a flurry of grower orders. Click here to read QSL Trading Manager Matt Page’s latest monthly market update (current 24 January 2020) for an overview of the key drivers behind the price surge and current outlook.

Tuesday Training in Mackay & Plane Creek
QSL’s Mackay and Plane Creek offices will host grower training sessions every Tuesday from February through to April. Two sessions will be held each Tuesday at 9.30am and 1.30pm.

The first Training Tuesday will be 11 February.

Training topic: How to use QSL Direct
Learn how to:
• Create and edit a pricing order (grower-managed)
• Nominate GEI sugar tonnes to a QSL pool (QSL-managed)
• Navigate around the QSL Direct portal
• Find your payment statements and reports
Training venues are:
• QSL Mackay office at Level 2, Canegrowers Building, Wood Street, Mackay.
• QSL Plane Creek office at the Canegrowers Building, Broad Street, Sarina.
To RSVP please contact:
• MACKAY: Sonia Ball | 0418 978 120 | [email protected]
• PLANE CREEK | Kathy Zanco | 0437 645 342 | [email protected]
Please bring along your mobile phone, laptop or tablet.

QSL App
The QSL App has really come into its own in recent weeks, with a rallying sugar price resulting in a lot of growers taking advantage of the easy access to pricing, regardless of where they are. If you haven’t installed the QSL App yet, call your local QSL Grower Services Team member (numbers below). Check out the QSL App by clicking here.

Historical SnapShot

Tough days.
My how times have changed.
Loading cane by hand in the Mackay region circa 1900s.

If you recognise this photo or the people in it, or you have one of your own to share, please email [email protected]

Current indicative pool prices
To access our latest indicative pool prices and the Shared Pool applicable to your milling district, please click on the relevant link below:
Bundaberg Sugar milling districts
Far Northern Milling milling districts
Isis Central Sugar Mill milling districts
Mackay Sugar milling districts
MSF Sugar milling districts
Tully Sugar milling districts
Wilmar milling districts

QSL Daily Market Snapshot
Click here

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