GrazingFutures LBR: Stepping your way through business planning
GrazingFutures Livestock Business Resilience has many collaborators and partnerships. These fact sheets, templates and how-to guides have been developed by key partners and stakeholders to help producers develop their Farm Business Resilience Plan.
SMART Goals
When setting any type of goals it is important to make sure your goals have defined parameters. The SMART framework can help identify these parameters and ensure that your objectives are attainable within a certain time frame. Learn more about setting goals here: SMART Goals (PDF, 1.26 MB)
Natural Resource Management Goals and Risks
Natural resource management is essential for a sustainable and profitable grazing businesses. It enhances soil health, promotes biodiversity, reduces off-site impacts, and contributes to producer satisfaction and capacity. By prioritising these practices, graziers can achieve long-term success while safeguarding and improving the environment for future. It’s important to identify goals and risks to your business. More importantly establishing strategies how to minimise risks and steps to take towards meeting your goals. Check out this fact sheet from Southern Queensland Landscapes: NRM Risks and Goals (PDF, 324 KB)
Business and Personal Goals and Risks
In any farming business it is important to consider both your personal and business goals and any differences between them. This will also help identify and establish strategies how to minimise risks whilst working towards your goals. The following resource by Rural Solutions Queensland has examples and prompts to assist you with the completion of your Farm Business Resilience Plan: Producer Business and Personal Goals and Risks (PDF, 246 KB)
Resources, support and useful sites for producers
There are a lot of helpful resources available to support landholders online. The following document gathers together online information on drought preparedness and planning, climate and weather, assistance programs, and other funding into one place: Grazing producers contacts and handy links (PDF, 526 KB)
New Queensland Drought Assistance
New Queensland drought assistance is available to eligible primary producers across all industries. The assistance helps producers prepare their business for drought and other climate events and build business resilience. The new assistance measures replace the Drought Relief Assistance Scheme (DRAS). Freight subsidies for transporting fodder, water and livestock are no longer available for drought-declared properties as of 1 April 2022. You don’t need to be drought-declared to access the new assistance. See this fact sheet (PDF, 752 KB) for further details on the new drought assistance measures.
Supporting southwest Queensland producers to build their resilience for the future
Producers in Queensland can access a range of support services to help manage business and climate risks through the new Grazing Futures Livestock Business Resilience project (GF LBR). This support is available without having to be drought declared. This fact sheet (PDF, 211KB) outlines the process and specific contacts for producers in southwest Queensland.