This week
Season to date
Cane crushed
35,206
1,090,513
Average bin weight
3.84
3.90
CCS
14.58
14.15
Cane variety performance for region
Variety
%
CCS
Variety
%
CCS
Q183
22.9
15.21
Q253
9.8
13.00
Q240
20.1
14.62
SRA9
7.6
14.79
Q208
21.4
14.73
SP80
6.3
14.99
Q252
3.0
13.62
Q138
4.6
13.88
Comments:
Plane Creek Mill processed just over 35,200 tonnes of cane for the week, bringing the season-to-date total to just over 1.09 million tonnes.
Widespread rain mid-week triggered a halt to harvesting operations, and the mill ran out of cane on Thursday morning.
Scheduled chemical cleaning and planned maintenance was brought forward to take advantage of the wet weather stoppage.
Field conditions had improved by the weekend, and there were plans to resume crushing Sunday evening.
Average CCS declined by 0.25 of a unit over the previous week, closing out at 14.58 units. The year-to-date average is now sitting at 14.15 units.
Standover cane made up approximately six per cent of the week’s cane supply.
The highest CCS honour for the week was a rake of Q208 fourth Ratoon from the Mt Christian productivity area with a CCS of 17.60 units.
Lindsay Wheeler
Cane Supply Manager
Plane Creek Region