QUEENSLAND cane growers last week made a trip to the halls of Parliament House for a meeting with the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Albeit a short one.

For 40 minutes representatives of Canegrowers, including chairman Paul Schembri, CEO Dan Galligan, Michael Pisano, Philip Marano and Prosperine's own Glenn Clarke had a chance to update the Prime Minister on the sugar cane crisis in North Queensland.

Proserpine Canegrowers chair Mr Clarke said the Treasurer Scott Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Member for Dawson George Christensen were at the table during the meeting.

"It was a pretty good meeting and was designed to update politicians on how the negotiations have been going with Wilmar and QSL,” he said.

A code of conduct for sugar millers was also discussed.

Mr Christensen has been advocating for a "vehicle that would provide a framework to allow growers to go forward with confidence in their future dealings with millers”.

The code of conduct was released in July 2015 but was never legislated.

Enforcing the code, according to Mr Christensen, would ensure "a foreign corporation can never ride roughshod over cane growers again”.

Mr Clarke said a compulsory code of conduct would provide a long term solution to stakeholder disputes.

"We don't want to come back in five years' time to renegotiate an agreement,” he said.

"Growers have been left in limbo for a number of years while those two parties come to a renewed agreement.

"We simply can't hold the industry up every time an agreement comes up for realignment.”

During the meeting Mr Clarke said federal politicians had a good grasp on what could be a complicated issue.

Mr Clarke said Wilmar's announcement last Friday that they had "agreed in principle” to Queensland Sugar Limited's terms was "good news” and he hoped the contracts didn't take long to finalise.