Ongoing intakeNew South WalesGovernment
Drought Relief Loan
Offered by Rural Assistance Authority
Ongoing intake
This program accepts applications continuously and the funder publishes no closing date. Ongoing programs do get closed or paused, sometimes without notice, so we watch this one nightly and the alert list is told the day it changes.
Verified against Rural Assistance Authority's own page on 27 Aug 2026
Key facts
- Funding amount
- Up to $100k
- Up to $100,000
- Status
- Ongoing intake
- Opened 10 March 2026
- Jurisdiction
- New South Wales
- Last verified
- 27 Aug 2026
- The date we last read this program on Rural Assistance Authority's own page.
Who can apply
Rural Assistance Authority lists this program as open to the following kinds of applicant. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide it.
- Companies
- Partnerships
- Sole traders
- Trusts
Eligibility, in the funder's words
Free account
Full eligibility detail is behind a free account
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What the program funds
Low interest loans of up to $100,000 to support primary producers managing the increasing impacts of drought. The loan can fund a wide range of activities, including on-farm infrastructure, animal welfare, and environmental improvements. The program supports eligible primary production enterprises to undertake drought-related activities necessary to sustain operations and manage the impacts of drought. This includes activities relating to animal welfare, on-farm infrastructure works, and environmental activities.
Free account
The rest of this program's detail is behind a free account
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That description is Rural Assistance Authority's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0. Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.
What it is for
This program is categorised under the following purposes. Each one that has a page of its own links to every other Australian grant we track for the same purpose.
How to apply
Applications for Drought Relief Loan are made through Rural Assistance Authority, not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.
Where this came from
© State of New South Wales. For current information go to www.nsw.gov.au. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Confirm details on the official page before applying. GrantWindow records what the funder published and when we read it. We are not the funder and this page is not legal, financial or eligibility advice.