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A state-of-the-art farm plastics recycling facility is set to take up two of the five tenancies occupying the Utilitas site […]

Premium Content Subscriber only People with a keen interest in business stepped into the Startup space this weekend with a 54-hour educational experience. Facilitated by entrepreneurship educator Baden U’Ren, this weekend’s Techstars Startup Weekend Bundaberg was supported by The Generator Bundaberg and Community Lifestyle Support. Mr U’Ren said Startup Weekend was a global movement designed to build grassroots entrepreneurial activity within communities and delivers a discipline on how to see sense an opportunity, seize an opportunity and then turn it into a commercial success. He sai...

Premium Content Subscriber only Farmers are staring down the barrel of burying crops, incentive schemes just aren't cutting it and backpackers say they're willing to foot the bill for their own quarantine. But it's not necessarily a simple solution. Increased prices at the check-out are one of the ever-present concerns circling the agriculture industry in the wake of Covid-19 and a subsequent lack of labour. Meanwhile, travel company Global Work & Travel announced the results of a report saying that 82 per cent of potential foreign workers would be willing to work on Australian farms right...

Ploughing into Greensill’s farm connection The Aussie farm outfit of Lex Greensill says it’s separate from his failed finance operation. Documents show that has not always been the case. The Greensill brothers, from left: Lex, Peter and Andrew.  Save Share On a stinking hot Queensland morning, a farm worker is slouched inside a white ute outside the $4.1 million beachside holiday house of fallen financial wizard Lex Greensill. The worker, wearing a blue-and-yellow shirt emblazoned with Greensill Farming – the Bundaberg-based sweet-potato and sugar-cane enterprise of Lex and...

Premium Content Subscriber only Bundaberg is full of positive news and that is something to celebrate, which is why we are bringing you a weekly dose of good news stories from around the region. Here are just some of the things that happened recently that made us smile. Colleagues reflect on retiree's huge contributions to local youth Nurturing, dedicated and passionate are just some of the words colleagues used to describe Heather Cummings ahead of her retirement. The 66-year-old started volunteering with Youth Insearch as a support adult and leader in 2005 before she was employed in 201...