 Since 1991, the distillery – just a short walk across a narrow road from the mill itself – has been producing ethanol for industrial, pharmaceutical and food manufacturing markets.
Come August/September, the Rocky Point Distillery will also be producing fuel ethanol – going online before the Dalby plant in Queensland’s Darling Downs to become the first new dry-grain ethanol facility in Australia.
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Crushing Reports
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2007 Season Summary
A crop of 238,862.22 tonnes of cane were crushed at Rocky Point mill in 2007, with a season average CCS of 12.26.
The growing season was highlighted with dry conditions, followed by the worst frosts the district had experienced for 20 years. This had a dramatic affected on the tonnes of cane produced in the district for 2007. Prospects for 2008 crop are much improved.
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Agriculture
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Sugar cane grows best in warm, sunny, frost-free weather. It needs fertile, well-drained soil and at least 1,500 millimetres of rain each year or access to irrigation supplies. These ideal conditions are found along the Queensland coastline. In Queensland more than 497,000 hectares of land is devoted to cane farming. Most farms range in size from 30 to 250 hectares.
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Rocky Point Sugar Mill