Farming for the Future is an important project that will play an active role in helping farmers combat climate change and biodiversity loss without sacrificing production or farm business performance.

Through a combination of philanthropic, industry, government and private sector funding, Ag accountants, advisors and farmers will be given the opportunity to help design, build and test a diagnostic system designed to quantify the value that agricultural natural capital generates for farm businesses and farming families.

In the initial stage, the program will ideally suit livestock operations between 600ha and 5000ha in NSW, Victoria, South Australia, & Southern parts of WA. Other farms around Australia will be eligible in later stages. We encourage you to submit your details so we can contact you when we are ready to consider farms in your area.

Participants will receive Natural Capital Accounts valued at $35,000. You will need to be able to provide at least 5 years of financial and operational (production) records. These will be de-identified and pooled into a database for analysis. Experienced agricultural accountants and advisors engaged by Farming for the Future as trusted service providers will make the data collection process easy. They will explain your farm reports and natural capital accounts to you. Outputs of the research will be designed so that individual participants cannot be identified.