It is reported by NewsMail.

Bundaberg Sugar operations general manager David Pickering told the storm had delayed harvesting by a few days for both Millaquin and Bingera mills.

«Many powerlines and trees down across North Bundaberg delayed transport of cane to Bingera mill until tomorrow (Friday)», — he said.

Both mills are expected to resume crushing operations tomorrow although harvesting may be slower than normal.

Following record rainfall in October and the storm this week, the season end is now expected to be delayed by three weeks, finishing around November 25 at Bingera and December 6 at Millaquin.

Cane grower Allan Dingle last month spoke from his boat afloat in one of his flooded fields. Mr Dingle's Moorlands Rd property sits on the Kolan River at the time the water was about 4 m deep, metres above the sugar cane The water level at the property was higher than that during the 2010-11 flood.

At the time, Mr Dingle said the remainder of the season would be like was up in the air. «We've gone from extremely dry to extremely wet, — he said, — This is the wettest October we've had. We needed just "happy medium" but it doesn't work that way».

The Bundy Canegrowers chairman said as with Mother Nature, it was out of the farmers' hands, they just had to hope for the best.