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Get ready for the future

Up to three people per business can register for the program.
We’ll aim to avoid peak periods on farm.

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What is Resilient Farming Tas and is it for me?

What is Resilient Farming Tas?


Resilient Farming Tas is the Program that will work with individual farm businesses here in Tasmania to prepare a Farm Business Resilience Plan.

The planning process will identify risks and opportunities associated with drought, the effect of other climate extremes and other unexpected events. The aim of this Program is to support you to access a range of tools to manage the effects of climate change and other risks to your farm business.

The final ‘Plan on a Page'  will list priority actions that you will implement to control risks to your business and make the most of opportunities.

What is resilience?

A resilient business can react quickly to challenges and opportunities and make good decisions at the right time. It is prepared to handle sudden changes and survive difficult times. Being resilient involves the use of suitable technology, good advice, networks and sound business management.

Why participate? Why bother?

By planning for predicted changes your business can be better protected. You will be preparing the people and the land to minimise the risk of damage and loss in difficult times.

The Farm Business Resilience Plan will provide a framework for action and can also be used in grant applications to attract funding for your projects.


How to engage in this Program

You will be supported through each stage of this program detailed below:

  • • An RMCG team member will contact you to discuss the risks affecting your business and management of those risks

    • We will connect you to people and resources for support to help start working on your Farm Business Resilience Plan

    • You will choose which focus areas of the program are most important to you depending on risks and opportunities you identified

    • You can then choose how you engage and get relevant information for planning through farm visits, conversations with specialists, events and/or the online knowledge platform

  • • We will support you to develop a Farm Business Resilience Plan with clear Risks and Actions

Frequently Asked Questions

  • • This program is for any Tasmanian farm business registered for GST, and that is not a corporate business

  • • The pace of participation is self-guided except for the key face-to-face networking events relevant to your location and enterprise type.

  • • Recruitment for participation is open now and start dates will be staggered between March and July 2024.

    • The program will arrange cohorts to deliver the in-person events and encourage connection.

    • Self-paced learning is also an option.

  • • Up to 3 members from each business are eligible to participate in the program, with a total cost to the business of $500 plus GST

    • Dairy farmers are encouraged to enrol in the Our Farm, Our Plan program https://www.dairyaustralia.com.au/farm-business/our-farm-our-plan

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Delivery Team

RMCG is an Australian environmental and agricultural consulting business. The team members in this project live in Penguin, Launceston and Hobart.

Optimum Standard is a Tasmanian consultancy, located in Hobart, focusing on regional communities and agricultural businesses and supply chains. We work with governments, farm businesses, food processors, logistic operators, waste managers and service providers here in Tassie. RMCG and Optimum Standard have collaborated before and share an office. 

We know there are a range of experts and specialists here in Tasmania, Rural Business Tasmania (RBT), Rural Alive and Well (RAW) and Safe Farming Tasmania to name a few. Our delivery team will collaborate with these organisations and other specialists to provide program participants with the input and insight they need to make a good plan. 

 

Image L-R: Benjamin Freudenmann (Optimum Standard), Belinda Hazell OAM (Optimum Standard), Dr Doris Blaesing (RMCG), Harrison Tew (Optimum Standard), Morag Anderson (RMCG), Isabel Axio (RMCG), Allison Clark (Optimum Standard)

Acknowledgement of Country

Tasmania is Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the palawa and pakana, the Tasmanian Aboriginal people, as the Traditional Owners and continuing custodians of the lands, seas and waterways of lutruwita, Tasmania on which this project has been conducted. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and we acknowledge emerging leaders. Moreover, we express gratitude for the knowledge and insight that Traditional Owners and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people contribute to our shared work in Australia. 

We embrace the spirit of reconciliation, working towards self-determination, equity of outcomes, and an equal voice for Australia’s First People.

Funding Statement

The Farm Business Resilience Program is jointly funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and the Tasmanian Government’s Rural Business Resilience Package.

Contact us

Contact us to be connected to a team member phone: 03 5441 4821 or email: bst@rmcg.com.au