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Farm Financial Counselling Service


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Financial counsellors can be your first stop for information about rural finance, assistance schemes and welfare programs.



A free and confidential service for primary producers. It can help you with managing drought, seasonal conditions, natural disasters, industry reform, low prices and changing rural credit policies.

A qualified financial counsellor will spend time with you exploring the issues and problems you are facing, help you understand your current financial position, and assess options for improvement.

Farm financial counselling can help you:

  • understand and develop improved financial management
  • negotiate with financial institutions
  • identify and assess the financial impact of options
  • compare the viability of various enterprises
  • prepare applications for loans and government assistance schemes through QRAA and Centrelink.
Price:
Free for primary producers
Opening hours:
9 am - 5 pm Weekdays
Service locations:
Statewide

Bookings and locations

To book farm financial counselling or for further information please contact DPI&F.

Farm financial counsellors are located in many regional centres throughout Queensland, including:

  • Biloela
  • Bowen
  • Bundaberg
  • Cairns
  • Dalby
  • Gatton
  • Gympie
  • Innisfail
  • Kingaroy
  • Mackay
  • Mareeba
  • Toowoomba
  • Townsville
  • Warwick.

Wherever possible, counsellors will visit you on your property; although this depends on the situation and what suits the people concerned.

The federal government also provides a Rural Financial Counselling Service as part of the Agriculture Advancing Australia program. For more information, visit Commonwealth Rural Financial Counsellors on the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry website.

Counselling service details

Farm financial counsellors use financial analysis to help producers:

  • understand their own financial position
  • identify and assess the economic impact of options
  • develop strategies and plans for implementing their preferred option(s) for improvement
  • in more serious circumstances, to exit from agriculture.

Detailed overview

Additional information and websites

DPI&F does not provide advice on financial products

Information provided by farm financial counsellors is not intended to influence primary producers to make particular decisions relating to financial products.

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Page maintained by Sacha Kitson
Last updated 26 June 2008



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