FOR the second time since July, QSL has rejected a deal offered by Wilmar Sugar that, if accepted, would have assured QSL as a potential marketer for GEI sugar for the 2017 season and beyond.

On Friday afternoon, Wilmar informed its growers about the offer which included further concessions since the last cane supply agreements were rejected.

QSL was quick to issue a statement on its website which cited an unfair agreement and Wilmar's "efforts to remove growers' right to choose their own sugar marketer as a reason for not taking the deal up”.

"Wilmar has also constantly reiterated throughout the negotiations that the positions it now claims are concessions are a 'package deal' that are only offered if other positions (which Wilmar has not made public) are agreed,” the statement read.

In the amended proposal, Wilmar agreed to sell GEI sugar and transfer title to QSL free in store on a weekly basis based on payment in full at the ICE#11 price.

However, QSL managing director and CEO Greg Beashel accused Wilmar of "releasing selective information to growers in a piecemeal fashion” and said growers were still waiting for choice in marketing guaranteed by legislation passed at the end of last year.

Mr Pratt hit back on Monday and issued a second email to Wilmar growers.

"QSL has suggested to growers that my message on Friday did not disclose all the terms of our proposed package and that I had not fairly represented the current state of negotiations. Neither statement is correct,” he wrote.

Wilmar then told growers the GEISSA term sheet was available on the GrowerWeb.

Also on Monday federal member George Christensen weighed in and threatened to take Wilmar ot court if it continues "its push to turn cane growers into peasants”.

In Parliament on Monday, Mr Christensen said a code of conduct had already been drafted that would ensure "a foreign corporation can never ride roughshod over cane growers again” if legislated.

Canegrowers Proserpine manager Mike Porter expressed his frustration at the two parties' inability to come to an agreement and added the growers are the stakeholders losing out.

Last week Wilmar said 45-50% of Proserpine had signed 2017 CSAs with the milling giant.