Over 30 million tonnes of sugarcane was harvested during the 2018 season.

A natural disaster tax which is making the cost of insuring crops against storm damage prohibitive should be abolished, a leading Queensland advocacy group says.

The sense of trudging through mud-filled maggot infested trenches while artillery shells scream overhead has been recreated in vivid detail for the Spirit of Anzac Centenary Experience which opened in Townsville on Friday.