Dairy Farmers Need Support

eastAUSmilk has worked tirelessly with the department, processors and active farmers to finalise a plan for the Qld dairy industry.  It will be launched soon and has a range of initiatives for industry productivity, sustainability and growth – but it needs Government buy-in to work.

The plan sets out key priorities for the future to help farmers access new technologies and pastures, improve infrastructure for climate resilience and other strategies to increase productivity and farm gate output.

EAM has asked the Qld Government for support in the next budget, or earlier.  Farmers all read the news that the next budget will be tight, but compared with big ticket items like infrastructure, housing, education and health, our asks are very low cost with high impact. 

The asks relate to extending the popular and effective technology uptake and farm business resilience programs and resources to support implementing the plan and work on new pasture development. 

In total, the ask is only $3 million over 4 years, plus extending and improving access to FBRP – all would agree - a small hand out for a big hand up for dairy. 

EAM and our farmers will continue to work with the new Government to deliver this support.  We commend the Government’s ambitious commitment to increase total Qld agricultural industry total farm gate output to $30 billion by 2030 – and dairy farmers are ready to go to deliver our share. 

Importantly for Queensland, a more productive and sustainable dairy industry delivers in spades for local, regional economies while ensuring Queenslanders can drink more home grown milk. 

Denise Spinks, Government Relations Manager eastAUSmilk