QSL Weekly Update

17 January 2020

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Welcome to your weekly overview of QSL news and information.

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

FEBRUARY PRICING DEADLINES (2019 Season)

QSL Individual Futures Contract (IFC) 14 FEB 2020. Pricing completion date for the MAR20 Contract. More info? Click here.
QSL Target Price Contract (TPP): 20 FEB 2020. Any unfilled orders beyond this date will be rolled to the MAY20 Contract. More info? Click here.
20 FEB 2020 MSF Sugar districts: Pricing completion date for the 2019-Season Target Price Contract.

In brief

Quarterly reports: Quarterly reports (Q2 1/10/2019 - 31/12/2019) will be generated and available to growers on their QSL Direct online portal on Monday evening (20 January).
QSL Standard Advance Rates: QSL's Standard Advance rate is scheduled to increase to 80% this month. Those receiving QSL's Accelerated Advances will remain on 90% this month.
Click here for the 2019-Season Indicative Advances Program details

QSL Direct workshops Mareeba/Mossman

QSL Direct workshops will be held at Mareeba and Mossman early next week. Details are:

Mareeba: Monday 20 January at CANEGROWERS, 11B/94 Byrnes Street

9am to 10.30am

Mossman: Tuesday 21 January at QSL office, 31B Front Street

9am to 10.30am
11.30am to 1pm
2pm to 3.30pm

Please RSVP to Amanda Sheppard via call or text 0418 264 393

Tuesday Training Mackay & Plane Creek

Mackay and Plane Creek QSL Grower Representatives will hold 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 on February 11.
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
Useful tips

Training venues are:

QSL Mackay office at Level 2, Canegrowers Building, Wood Street
QSL Plane Creek office at the Canegrowers Building, Broad Street, Sarina.

To RSVP please contact:

MACKAY: Sonia Ball | 0418 978 120 | sonia.ball@qsl.com.au
PLANE CREEK | Kathy Zanco | 0437 645 342 | kathy.zanco@qsl.com.au

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 Representative (numbers below). Check out the QSL App vimeo by clicking here.

Historical SnapShot

Hambledon raw sugar mill, Edmonton area, Cairns region. 'Back in the day' the raw sugar was taken by horse-drawn tram to Swallow's Wharf at the end of Trinity Inlet. Established circa 1880s and closed and demolished 1991 according to Queenslandplaces.com.au.

If you have an interesting photo to share, please email to sonia.ball@qsl.com.au or drop it in to your local QSL Office.

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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