Interest rates are 2.4 times higher
Since 2022, interest rates have more than doubled. For every $1m borrowed, that’s about $3,000 a month extra. Stay in control of your farm business.
Since 2022, interest rates have more than doubled. For every $1m borrowed, that’s about $3,000 a month extra, or $36,000 a year. Stay in control of your farm business.
Free, impartial and confidential financial counselling
Rural Financial Counselling Service (RFCS) Southern Queensland offers free, impartial and confidential financial counselling to primary producers who are:
- experiencing or at risk of financial hardship
- located in the Southern Queensland area.
Our Financial Counsellors can help you work through your farm’s financial difficulties and get things back on track. We can assist with a wide range of services including:
- farm business plans
- improving cash flow and budgeting
- bank and creditor negotiations
- Farm Business Debt Mediation
- accessing financial support, including the Farm Household Allowance.
We can visit you on farm or at another suitable location. Alternatively, we’re available to talk on the phone or via a video chat.
Also available is free and confidential business wellness coaching. If you’re a primary producer in Southern Queensland experiencing mental health or emotional wellbeing stress, then you may be eligible for one-to-one customised emotional coaching and wellbeing support.
Rural Financial Counselling
Find out what planning and support services we can offer to help your farm.
Farm Business Resilience Planning
Find out how we can improve the resilience of your livestock farm business.
Business Wellness Coaching
Find out about our free and confidential emotional counselling and wellbeing support.
Our service area – Southern Queensland
We help primary producers located in the following Southern Queensland Local Government Areas.
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RFCS Southern Queensland
Funded by the Australian Government and Queensland Government
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We support diversity and the equal inclusion of all persons, regardless of any identity markers. We acknowledge Traditional Owners of Country and pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
