Dairy Farming Business Grants

Jul 01, 2020    Posted by Brittany Cunningham

Secure a grant for your Diary business!

"The Energy Efficient Communities Program – Dairy Farming Business Grants provides dairy farming businesses with grants of up to $20,000 to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy costs and lower on-farm emissions. Grants may be used for equipment replacement, component upgrades, energy audits or feasibility studies.

• Close date: 17 Aug 2020 05:00 PM AEST
• What do you get? Grants from $5,000 to $20,000 for dairy farming businesses
• Who is this for? This grant opportunity is for dairy cow farming businesses

The objective of this grant opportunity is to support Australian dairy farming businesses to save energy through:

• replace existing equipment with higher efficiency equipment
• install or replace a component/s to help an existing system run more efficiently
• carry out on-farm energy audits
• carry out monitoring of energy usage and emissions

There is an estimated $10 million available for this grant opportunity and funding will be distributed between jurisdictions in proportion to the number of dairy cow farms with the following breakdown of grant funding."¹ Tasmanians will receive 9% of the funding at $900,000.00 and each grant is capped at $20,000.00.

What are the eligibility criteria?

"To be eligible you must:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• be licensed to operate a dairy cow farming business in Australia – providing, where relevant, a Dairy Registration Number from a recognised authority

You must be located in one of the following states:

• New South Wales
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western Australia"²

How to apply?

Head to https://business.gov.au/Grants-and-Programs/Energy-Efficient-Communities-Program-Dairy-Farming-Business and hit "Apply Now".

More information call Business.gov.au on 13 28 46.

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This information was correct at the time of writing. All information is available at Business.gov.au. Credit for this article goes to Business.gov.au.

Notations ¹ and ² are referenced to https://business.gov.au/Grants-and-Programs/Energy-Efficient-Communities-Program-Dairy-Farming-Business.