Gold Coast sugarcane farmers are preparing to truck some of their crop to NSW in an attempt to salvage something from this year's harvest.
Growers on the northern end of the Gold Coast have been scrambling to get this summer's crop crushed after a fire shut down the region's only mill late last month.
Already delayed after repairs to the Rocky Point Sugar Mill, local growers were facing a disastrous harvest when the 130-year-old facility was damaged in the blaze on November 29.
An agreement has been reached to truck approximately 40,000 tonnes of cane south of the border to the Condong Mill in Murwillumbah.
But Rocky Point District Cane Growers Organisation chairman Richard Skopp says the plan will still result in 160,000 tonnes of cane being left unharvested this summer.
"It only helps mitigate some of the losses," Mr Skopp told AAP.
The fire at the Rocky Point mill has been viewed as a potentially decisive point in local growers' desire to see the area rezoned for urban development however Mr Skopp said no contact had been made with local or state authorities about that proposal.
Rocky Point's output of 200,000 tonnes per year makes it the smallest of Queensland's cane-producing districts.
