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

With many farmers suffering through one of the worst Droughts Australia has experienced; Parma for a Framer is an effort to help raise money for those in the need.

Parma for a farmer is an initiative that sees clubs and hotels donate proceeds from parma sales to help drought stricken farmers.

Parma For A Farmer is an exciting initiative to engage with hotels, clubs, restaurants, eateries across Australia who have agreed to give $1 for every parm sold to our Buy a Bale Campaign.

Register for Parma for a Farmer…

For more information, visit: www.parmaforafarmer.com.au

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

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.

"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"

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

"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."

"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"

"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."

"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

"Thank you so much for the help you have given me once again. You have helped to save my sanity as well as assisting with the budget. Thankfully we have had some rain finally and the dams are working well even though the dams are not full. It sure has taken the pressure of water worries off my shoulders and I can move the cattle around for the green pic which is there at present. We do need more rain so if you have a rain dance that works or if you believe in prayer, please keep us in mind.

Thanks again"

Jacqueline

"Very much appreciated and very helpful. Cannot tell you how much this helps with trying to maintain our breeding ewes as we go into winter."

Barry and Helen

"We would like to thank you very much and appreciate all that you have done. It has been a tough time and still on going. Hopefully we will see a break here shortly.
Thanking you so very much "

Jane and Lachlan

"Thank you sincerely Rural Aid for the $1500 assistance provided to us. We are so grateful as we missed out on most of the rain last week and will be feeding cattle for some time as this is our highest priority with spending on feed. Any help towards our expenses is greatly appreciated and keeps us in a positive mood however hard it gets.
Thank you kindly"

Lynette Huntly

"Words can't express our gratitude for the support of 'Rural Aid', something we have never considered before. We have always 'got by', but our family suggested we apply for this. We are overwhelmed by this generosity, thanks again. "

June and Darryl Joe Kong

"We just want to say a big thank you for the financial assistance that Rural Aid has recently given. We are extremely grateful and it certainly does make a difference."

Sally Archibald

"Thank you so much for your assistance. We were able to feed weaner calves in the yard as a result of your generosity, since we had been unable to access any feed from anywhere, and had nothing to feed them. It is heart warming that so many Australians think of farmers and want to support us."

"Thank you so much for your support. The generosity of so many caring people/companies keeps up our spirits during this most trying of times. In our community this drought is experienced by our generational farmers as being the worst in 100 years. With precious cattle having to be sold at never-before-seen bottom-of-the market prices, or have to be put out of their misery because of terminal drought-related issues, it's very difficult to stay positive in these heart-breaking times as we wait for drought-breaking rain. Knowing that others are thinking about, caring about and acting positively for us, though, helps enormously. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts."

"A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed in any way to the tremendous help that has been delivered to drought stricken farmers across the country. Receiving a gift of a truck load of hay is absolutely heart warming and very good for the mind as well as a huge help in keeping our stock fed.
My sincere thanks"

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