Farm Business Resilience Planning
Primary producers can receive free, impartial and confidential farm business resilience planning
Primary producers can receive free, impartial and confidential farm business resilience planning
About Farm Business Resilience Planning
If you’re a primary producer in Southern Queensland, we offer free, impartial and confidential farm business planning.
Primary producers in Southern Queensland manage uncertainty and complexity every day. However, running a 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 you need to prepare for and effectively manage climate and business risks. Which helps improve your 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.
Our service can help you build a sustainable farm business. Our Farm Business Planning Specialists will work alongside you to help improve whole of farm management, business performance and overall profitability.
The Farm Business Resilience Planning Service operates alongside the Rural Financial Counselling Service.
How we can help
Our Farm Business Planning Specialists can come to your farm or rural business and help improve your farm business resilience.
| What’s on offer | How it assists your farm business |
|---|---|
| Completing a farm business self-assessment checklist | Your completed checklist will help you work out where you and your farm business are now. Before you can plan for the future, you need to have a good understanding of your current situation. |
| Developing a farm business resilience plan | Your plan will help you identify and manage the specific risks affecting your farm business. You’ll have proactive strategies and actions prepared to address the specific risks affecting your farm business. Allowing you to achieve better outcomes and improve your farm business resilience. |
| Improving your overall financial and business literacy | With improved skills and knowledge in financial and business areas, you can make better, more informed decisions for your farm business. |
| Applying for the drought support package (grant and/or loan) from Queensland Rural and Industry Development Authority (QRIDA) | QRIDA Drought 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. QRIDA Drought Ready and Recovery Finance Loan can help you secure the future sustainability of your farm business. |
| Providing individual on-property support to you in your business. | Our Farm Business Planning Specialists provide the ongoing support you need to develop your plan to adapt to the challenges of managing your business. |
You don’t need to be at risk or experiencing financial hardship to access our Farm Business Resilience Planning Service.
Our Farm Business Planning Specialists
Get in touch with one of our Farm Business Planning Specialists to access our free, impartial and confidential farm business planning.
Lewes Golden
Southern Queensland
Supporting all Southern Queensland areas
All primary producers (excluding extensive livestock)
Toowoomba Office
0439 065 718
lewes.golden@rsq.org.au
Frances Harvey
Southern Queensland
Supporting all Southern Queensland areas
All primary producers (excluding extensive livestock)
Toowoomba Office
0427 138 028
frances.harvey@rsq.org.au
Hannah Mrowka
Central Queensland / Wide Bay Burnett
Supporting Central Highlands, Rockhampton, Banana and North Burnett areas
Extensive livestock producers only
Emerald Office
0447 789 109
hannah.mrowka@rsq.org.au
Shané Steffen
Wide Bay Burnett
Supporting the Wide Bay Burnett region
All primary producers (excluding extensive livestock)
Bundaberg Office
0428 961 604
shane.steffen@rsq.org.au
Kerrie-Lyn Rae
South East Queensland
Supporting the South East Queensland region
All primary producers (excluding extensive livestock)
Toowoomba Office
0459 204 343
kerrie-lyn.rae@rsq.org.au
Fred Clark
South West Queensland / Darling Downs
Supporting Maranoa, Balonne, Western Downs and Goondiwindi areas
Extensive livestock producers only
Roma Office
0437 292 848
fred.clark@rsq.org.au
Works part-time in this role
Nathan Wichlacz
South West Queensland / Darling Downs
Supporting Maranoa, Balonne, Western Downs and Goondiwindi areas
Extensive livestock producers only
Roma Office
0428 341 397
nathan.wichlacz@rsq.org.au
Works part-time in this role
Have a general enquiry?
Get in touch if you have an enquiry about our Farm Business Resilience Planning Service.
This program is jointly funded through Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and the Queensland Government’s Drought and Climate Adaptation Program.
Rural Financial Counselling Service (RFCS) Southern Queensland
The RFCS Southern Queensland offers free, impartial and confidential financial counselling to primary producers in Southern Queensland.
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Rural Solutions Queensland
Funded by the Australian Government and Queensland Government
Registered charity
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