Future Drought Fund Long-term Trials of Drought Resilient Farming Practices Program Round 2 – upcoming grant opportunity
The Long-term Trials of Drought Resilient Farming Practices Program Round 2 will investigate innovative farming practices, technologies and/or approaches through evidence-based trials to inform farmers, drive adoption, and foster transformational change to build drought and climate resilience.
The Program has an expanded list of eligible agricultural industries including cereal, other broadacre crops, horticulture crops and livestock.
Projects must demonstrate through scientific and statistically validated trials the effectiveness of practices, technologies and/or approaches.
Drought and climate resilience will be increased by projects that enable farmers to:
- be prepared for and respond to drought
- experiment with the adoption of practices, technologies and/or approaches that build drought and climate resilience
- establish and strengthen networks to improve knowledge sharing
$40.3 million is available through an open competitive grant process for projects between $3 million to $8 million. Activities must be undertaken over 6 years from 2024–25 until 2029–30.
Applications must include a consortium of partners, with a lead organisation nominated as the ‘applicant’. Co-design and farmer involvement is required.
This grant opportunity is expected to be open for up to 8 weeks. An information webinar will be held in early October for prospective applicants.
Program details may change with the published grant opportunity.