Farm Business Resilience Program

Supporting farmers to develop knowledge and skills

Upskilling to better manage drought impacts and a changing climate

Run by Vic Hub partner Agriculture Victoria, the Farm Business Resilience (FBR) program supports farmers to develop the knowledge and skills they need to improve their farm business and be better equipped to manage the impacts of drought and a changing climate.

Learn more about the Farm Business Resilience Program

The FBR program supports farmers to improve skills and management practices in:

• business planning and risk management​
• farm finances and profitable decision making ​
• managing people on farm, farm safety and wellbeing ​
• climate adaptation and natural-resource improvement including soil, water, crops and pastures

Farmers are supported to develop or update existing farm-action plans to achieve their individual business goals.

To date, 2,043 Victorian farmers have participated in intensive training activities through the FBR program.

Wimmera famers Simon Nuske and Kate Cross are among those who have undertaken the program.

The couple owns a cropping and livestock farm in Dimboola, western Victoria, and signed up to the Farm Business Resilience Program to improve their business management and finance skills, on-farm infrastructure and learn new practices to improve their farm.

As part of the program, they developed a farm plan to prioritise their business goals. It also supported them to appreciate what is within and outside their control.

Kate says, “‘As farmers, you generally have a lot of ideas floating around… so to put pen to paper and structuralise that was really important for us moving forward and for the sustainability of our business.”

Hear their story.

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