Supporting Aussie farmers and rural communities throughout Australia. This drought appeal campaign is providing meaningful support for farmers by delivering hay and other essential items to farmers who have no feed left for their cattle.

All donations to our drought assistance campaign have a four fold effect. Some hay is donated, some we buy, so we’re feeding a hay farmer and their family. Some of our truckies are donating their time and diesel, some loads we’re paying for, so we’re feeding truckies and their families. Donations towards our Farmers card inject immediate cash into the rural towns, city cash going bush. Finally what hay we deliver saves farmers cash that they can continue to spend on other items.

Australia, donating to Buy a Bale is helping not just farmers but their communities and so many more people.
Thank you on behalf of our farmers for your support.

Our Partners

Australia Day is the perfect day to celebrate our country and bring awareness to the importance of supporting our farmers.

This year we have been invited to participate in events all across Queensland and New South Wales. With all the funds raised across these spectacular days and nights to be donated towards our farmers and their rural communities.

So if you are nearby, why not pop in and visit us at our stalls to help us show the importance our farmers mean to this incredible country.

– Festivities at Broadwater Parklands Gold Coast, QLD. Saturday 26th January
– Festivities at Sutherland Sydney, NSW. Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th January
– Test Cricket at The Gabba Brisbane, QLD. Thursday 24th – Monday 28th January
– Country Music Festival Tamworth, NSW. Friday 18th – Sunday 27th January

Young Australian Country singer Phoebe Jay joins with one of the world’s greatest guitarists Tommy Emmanuel to raise funds for Rural Aid’s Suicide Prevention Campaign with Free Air.

Phoebe Jay is a young country music singer songwriter, living around the cane-fields of Bundaberg. This wonderfully, talented young Australian singer’s melodic tones and harmonies mix traditional, classic country with a twist creating a new and vibrant sound.

Now, national number one with single Rollercoaster Ride under her belt she sets out to bring awareness to the issue Australian Farmer Suicide with the release of her next album Free Air featuring Tommy Emmanuel to help raise funds for Rural Aid’s Suicide Prevention Campaign. Bringing awareness of our rural people and the wider community who are at risk of taking their own lives.

RETURN AND EARN

TOMRA is partnered with Buy a Bale of Hay to help raise much-needed funds for feed, water and fuel. NSW recyclers can donate their Return and Earn container deposit refunds at any reverse vending machine, allowing 10-cent refunds on eligible drink containers to be donated to those affected by the drought.

NSW recyclers can donate their Return and Earn container deposit refunds at any reverse vending machine. But for those residents looking to donate to farmers immediately they can use a special ‘Buy a Bale’ barcode when visiting any of the 270 RVMs across the state.

The money will go towards rural NSW farmers and communities struggling to survive the harsh drought plaguing the state – providing them with much needed support like hay and other essentials to give them a fighting chance in these tough times.

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Qantas has partnered with charity Rural Aid to help fund hay bales, water trucking, groceries and mental health counsellors for farming communities struggling to survive the worst drought conditions parts of Australia have seen in decades.

The program includes an immediate $1 million cash donation by Qantas to Rural Aid, followed by a number of Qantas and Jetstar appeal initiatives to raise another $1 million with your help. We’ll match these fundraising efforts, with the aim of providing the charity with a total donation of $3 million by the end of 2018.

"Thank you Buy a Bale for the opportunity to support our farmers. We live in a drought affected community and see the starving cattle being drove along the roadside, we see the town getting quieter as business slows because farmers are struggling, we see the land void of fodder"

- Glenn and Natarsha Bovey

"We are so thankful for the hard work and persistence you show to provide us with food"

-Sam Manauzzi

"I would like to say a big thank you for your help and kindness. This is very big help for us, it will go a long way for us. I would like to thank all that made it possible for us to receive the hay, The hay maker, volunteers, workers and the truck drivers."

- Alice Elsley

"I cannot express how grateful we are for what you and your friends have done for us. We have had some very tough times in recent years – on a personal level with ill health matters etc, and then the drought has been crippling. I wonder if we would have been able to hang on without the help"

-Gail

"Thank you for all that you and your wonderful team did here. I look back over the past week, and even though it was a very tough emotional time for our family, we will always remember how wonderful your team was, and how much they helped us in every good and perfect way. We can’t thank them enough for their caring support."

-Glenda

"To all the volunteers and kind people who donated money to the buy a bale campaign, I would like to thank them for the coupons I recently received.

I am, as I am know you are aware, mentally & physically exhausted trying to keep a core herd of our much loved Devon cattle going through this extraordinary drought. Of course I am only one of thousands of farmers in this circumstance and indeed am luckier than many as I do have bore water.

It makes a big difference knowing that people care about what is happening on the land.

Again a big thank you."

- Alison Heap

We are a family with 4 young kids and you can’t even believe have much your help is appreciated. To not have to think about where the money will come from for our next family food shop is an amazing feeling.

We both come from farming family’s in WA and made the move to cowell 8 years ago and started our own farming journey 3 year ago, just as we were thinking we may be getting in front this year has definitely hit us hard. The support from buy a bale and rural aid is amazing still can’t believe we were lucky enough to receive your help it is greatly appreciated!!!!

So from the bottom of our hearts thank you so much for you help.

- Kelsey and Daniel Griffiths

"I wanted to take the time to write to sincerely thank you for your drought assistance. The gift cards that you sent were very much appreciated.

As we are about to go into 8 years of drought with minimal to no useful rain in the past 2 years, things have been extremely difficult and it is also difficult to express how much the assistance / support is appreciated. Please pass on my sincere thank you to the citizens and businesses that have contributed to Buy A Bale."

-Ray Bennett

Farmers – Register for fodder, financial assistance and more

What you can do to help our farmers ?

NSW Drought Assistance

Queensland and South Australia

Fodder and help for the Bush

The kindness of strangers

Welcome to Buy a Bale

Celebrating and supporting Australia!

Phoebe Jay Music

Rural Aid’s Tracy Alder delivering hampers to Janette

RETURN AND EARN

Qantas Drought Relief

Testimonials

The Farm Army

Donation Barrel

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Farmers – Register for fodder, financial assistance and more

What you can do to help our farmers ?

NSW Drought Assistance

Queensland and South Australia

Fodder and help for the Bush

The kindness of strangers

Welcome to Buy a Bale

Celebrating and supporting Australia!

Phoebe Jay Music

Rural Aid’s Tracy Alder delivering hampers to Janette

RETURN AND EARN

Qantas Drought Relief

Testimonials

The Farm Army

Donation Barrel