Funding for NSW rural landholders and aquaculture farmers impacted by storms and floods that began in February 2022

The Rural Landholders Grant provides funding to help storm and flood-affected rural landholders and aquaculture farmers in eligible local government areas (LGAs) recover.

Overview

Funding is available to storm and flood-affected rural landholders and aquaculture farmers who do not qualify for existing programs because they do not meet the 50% of income from primary production requirement.

Eligible funding claims may include:

• hiring or leasing equipment or materials to clean premises, property or equipment
• removing and disposing of debris, damaged goods, materials including injured or dead livestock
• repairing or replacing fencing and/or other essential property infrastructure
• purchasing and transporting fodder or feed for livestock
• replacing livestock
• replacing lost or damaged plants, salvaging crops, repairing or restoring fields
• replacing, reconditioning or replacing essential plant or equipment
• maintaining the health of livestock
• paying additional wages to an employee to assist with clean-up work (above and beyond normal wage expenditure, i.e. day-to-day staffing)
• repairing buildings (except dwellings, unless they are used for staff accommodation).

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, you must:

• be normally charged rates under the Local Land Services Act 2013 on a property of at least 10 hectares in size, or
• hold a Class A Aquaculture Permit under the Fisheries Management Act 1984 authorising aquaculture lease area of at least 1 hectare.

Applicants must also:

• not receive the majority of their income from primary production
• be in a LGA declared as a natural disaster approved for this program
• hold an Australian business number (ABN)
• earn no more than $180,000 from gross off-farm income
• not have gross off farm assets exceeding $5 million (excluding superannuation)
• have been active in primary production at the time of the declared natural disaster event and plan to re-establish or continue the primary production enterprise
• be able to demonstrate costs and proof of payment for clean-up activities, losses or damages from the disaster.