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

When Keith Urban announced a no frills benefit concert at the Tamworth Town Hall we all wanted tickets to see the show. So you can imagine our surprise to find that Keith had chosen Rural Aid as the beneficiary of said concert. What a night it was with Keith starting the show with his hit Coming Home, the crowd went wild and sang along to every tune for the rest of the night.

Having Keith back on our shores and performing in Tamworth where he said “I think this is all really where it all started for me” was a real treat and his generosity to our Australian farmers was admirable, donating the ticket price to Rural Aid for drought relief.

Rural Aid CEO and Co-founders Charles and Tracey Alder had the opportunity to meet and thank Keith personally before the concert and were thrilled to have Keith use his platform to inspire others to support Rural Aid and it’s program initiatives to support Australian farmers.

@KeithUrban: SO psyched to be playing the legendary Tamworth Town Hall tonite in support of Rural Aid that helps so many families in need!!!!!! It’ll be a nite to remember!!!!!! – KU

Rural Aid Australia works tirelessly to provide help and support to regional communities in good times and bad.

The funds raised will help provide more mental health coordinators and support personnel to regional communities, so rural Australia can get strong and stay strong. It’s a big job, and we need your help. So please help us help the bush. Proceeds from the Raffle for Resilience will help us in supporting rural Australia.

Enter the Raffle for Resilience for a chance to win a one-of-a-kind, commemorative edition LandCruiser 200 Sahara and more.

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."

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.

"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

"Fires in Tasmania and Western Australia. Drought continues in NSW. Drought now floods in Queensland. I don't know how the farming and rural communities pull through and continue, but thank goodness they do so that those of us that live in the cities and suburbs can still purchase food items in our supermarkets. Very happy to donate to charity organisations such as Buy a Bale who help farmers and their communities during times of natural disasters like those being experienced in so many areas of Australia. Australia - it's a beautiful country, but it can be a tough in the country!

Thank you to all the farming families, rural communities and the volunteers who help and support them."

-Lisa

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

Welcome to Buy a Bale

KEITH URBAN HITS THE RIGHT NOTE

Help Us Help Rural Australia Stay Strong

Phoebe Jay Music

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

Welcome to Buy a Bale

KEITH URBAN HITS THE RIGHT NOTE

Help Us Help Rural Australia Stay Strong

Phoebe Jay Music

RETURN AND EARN

Qantas Drought Relief

Testimonials

The Farm Army

Donation Barrel