You can view the 2024 Season year-to-date pool performance here.
The price a grower receives for forward pricing varies, dependent on that grower’s individual pricing decisions. The price is received in the season in which the sugar is produced and delivered (not the season in which the sugar is forward priced).
Past in-season pool performance is included below:
2023 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 761.40 |
| Shared Pool | 2,606.65 |
As per the Mackay Sugar cane supply agreement, the QCS Shared Pool price is a combination of US Quota pricing less QCS costs. To help you more easily compare GEI marketers, in addition to reporting the Shared Pool price in the way that the cane supply agreement requires, QCS also breaks the Shared Pool price down into US Quota pricing and QCS costs. QCS costs can be overall positive or negative, depending on the revenues and expenses for the season. When QCS costs are positive, they increase the net Shared Pool return.
| 2023 Season Shared Pool breakdown | AUD per IPS t |
| US Quota pricing | Not yet finalised |
| QCS costs | +69.08 |
The 2023 Season Shared Pool return was applied to around 1.83% of QCS-nominated tonnage.
2022 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 634.72 |
| Shared Pool | 2,560.38 |
| 2022 Season Shared Pool breakdown | AUD per IPS t |
| US Quota pricing | 977.75 |
| QCS costs | +57.03 |
The 2022 Season Shared Pool return was applied to around 3.0161% of QCS-nominated tonnage.
2021 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 509.65 |
| Shared Pool | 2,126.50 |
| 2021 Season Shared Pool breakdown | AUD per IPS t |
| US Quota pricing | 646.12 |
| QCS costs | +33.01 |
The 2021 Season Shared Pool return was applied to around 2.23% of QCS-nominated tonnage.
2020 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 412.89 |
| Shared Pool | 2,948.48 |
| 2020 Season Shared Pool breakdown | AUD per IPS t |
| US Quota pricing | 701.79 |
| QCS costs | +39.33 |
The 2020 Season Shared Pool return was applied to around 1.75% of QCS-nominated tonnage.
2019 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 402.97 |
| Shared Pool | 463.92 |
2018 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 378.21 |
| Shared Pool | 417.69 |
2017 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 457.85 |
| Shared Pool | 565.31 |
2016 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 496.27 |
| Shared Pool | 973.94 |
2015 Season
| Pool | AUD per IPS tonne return |
| Short Term Pool | 386.02 |
| Shared Pool | 494.14 |