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Rural Solutions Queensland: This program is jointly funded through Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and the Queensland Government’s Drought and Climate Adaptation Program.

If you’re an extensive livestock producer in Southern Queensland, we offer 

free, impartial and confidential support to help improve the resilience of your farm business.

The Farm Business Resilience Planning Service operates alongside the Rural Financial Counselling Service (rfcssq)

Extensive livestock producers in Southern Queensland manage uncertainty and complexity every day. However, running a livestock farm business is becoming more challenging. Particularly due to significant climate and business risks such as:

• natural disasters including drought, flooding and bushfires
• market uncertainty and other industry pressures.

The Farm Business Resilience Planning Service provides the tools, skills and knowledge extensive livestock producers need to prepare for and effectively manage climate and business risks. Which helps improve farm business resilience for the longer term. Including the ability to absorb and recover from challenges that have a negative impact on production and financial returns.

The Farm Business Resilience Planning Service operates alongside the Rural Financial Counselling Service (rfcssq)

You don’t need to be at risk or experiencing financial hardship to access our Farm Business Resilience Planning Service. You only need to be an extensive livestock producer (rangeland cattle, sheep or goat producer) located in Southern Queensland.

Planning for Success

Does your grazing business have a written business plan?  

Do you intend to apply for new commercial loans, or grants and concessional loans under the new Queensland Drought Assistance Package?  

To know more, we have rescheduled the Planning for Success workshops, sessions on completing the new Farm Business Resilience Plans   

How can  Rural Financial Counselling Service Help

Our livestock business planning specialists can come to your farm or rural business and help improve your farm business resilience.

Learn more see Link:  to Rural Financial Councelling Service Southern Queensland

https://www.rfcssq.org.au/rural/

B. Drought Preparedness Grants Rural and Industry Development Authority (QRIDA).

 Preparedness Grants offer up to $50,000 as a co-contribution grant to assist you to undertake on-farm capital improvements that will improve the drought preparedness of your property.

Primary producers can now apply for a grant of 25 per cent of the cost of purchasing new permanent capital infrastructure to a maximum cumulative amount of $50,000 over five years.

The grant aims to assist producers with the cost of implementing on-farm capital improvements and carrying out drought preparedness activities identified in their Farm Business Resilience Plan including the below and as outlined in the guidelines. 

Please note this is not an exhaustive list.

• water infrastructure including pipes, water tanks, water troughs, new dam construction, drilling a new working bore, water conservation infrastructure and water pumps
• storage, mixing and feeding out equipment for grain, fodder, molasses and other supplements
• grain storage and equipment that improves the ability of the business to manage drought
• reasonable freight components to purchase and install equipment or infrastructure
• consumables including fuel for own machinery used in relation to the drought preparedness project and
• contractor costs or non-salaried employees’ costs directly associated with implementing the drought preparedness project.

C. Farm Management Grants offer primary producers a 50 per cent rebate on the cost of eligible professional advice up to a maximum $2,500 to produce a Farm Business Resilience Plan for their property.

What assistance is available?

The Farm Management Grants Scheme supports primary producers in developing a Farm Business Resilience Plan, recognising risks associated with production, including climate and weather (such as drought), as well as biosecurity and natural resource management and business risks including financial and market factors.

D. QRIDA Sustainability Loan may be used as the co-contribution to the Drought Preparedness Grant for implementation activities. To be eligible for Drought Preparedness Grant, the project will:

• involve the purchase and installation of new permanent capital infrastructure
• improve the ability of the primary production business to prepare for continue to operate in, or recover from, drought conditions
• be a drought preparedness activity listed in your resilience plan for the primary production business and
• not have already commenced the project before the assistance is approved.

E. The Rural Agricultural Development (sheep and goats) Grants offer up to $200,000 as a co-contribution grant to support economic development in relevant rural areas and support growth within the industry.Grant funding may be used for an eligible activity, including, but not limited to:

• developing a new market for a product derived from sheep and goats; or
• expanding the capabilities of businesses within the supply chain for production, processing, manufacturing or selling products derived from sheep or goats; or 
• providing specialised training or equipment to an eligible primary production enterprise. 

F . Carbon Farming Grants & Funding Opportunities

The $21 million Historical Soil Data Capture Payments Program is a key measure under the National Soil Package. The program pays farmers and land managers to share their historical soil test data with the Australian Government. carbon farmers can access up to three federal payments, which can be used in combination to slash baselining costs and get more soil carbon projects off the ground:A1) The Pilot Soil Monitoring and Incentives Program provides $10,000 grants to create sampling plans, sample and analyse your soils – in return for sharing soil dataA.2) Landowners can also access a $5,000 advance payment to help with baseline soil sampling costs – this time in return for ACCUs. A.3) You can put past soil tests to good use under the Historical Soil Data Capture Payments Program, where in return for sharing test results you could be eligible for up to $10,000. These above three  programs will be open from April 2022 to 30 June 2023. 

Research project designed to improve reproductive performance of commercial goat meat herds in Australia.It is designed to improve reproductive performance of commercial goat herds, and ultimately increase productivity and profitability on-farm.Over five years, data will be captured from a minimum of 15 commercial properties and 15,000 goats. · “Producers must be interested in working with researchers, appreciate the importance of accurate data collection, and be open to implementing adaptive management practices.· “They will need to be willing to allow individual tagging (if not already tagged) of at least a proportion of their goats to participate in the project, because we will need to scan and follow individual animals and their reproduction performance.· “We will do a range of measurements including pregnancy scanning, weights, body condition scores, weaning rates, and taking faecal samples for worm counts to monitor parasites.· “We have a mobile handling facility with a hydraulic lift for the goats, with a scanner and scales, which we will use on our visits to help collect data on-farm.

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