AUSTRALIANS are being asked to buy a bale of hay as part of a fundraising campaign launched this week, which aims to keep struggling farmers on the land.
Stemmed from northern cattle producers tough season with no live trade export, drought and bushfires which burnt feed stocks, the Aussie Helpers' Buy a Bale Campaign has received calls of assistance from Victoria, Tasmania, NSW and Queensland.
Just days in the making, the campaign has received almost $10,000 in donations as well as $100,000 from the Bartercard Charity Foundation.
Aussie Helpers head Brian Egan said the calls for assistance reflect a tough time for Australian agriculture.
"The donations will save someone and our only agenda is to keep people on the land," Brian said.
"Many of these farmers won't just fail financially, but may become victims of depression through no fault of their own making,"
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If your're really serious about helping your fellow Australian stay in a job, remember: charity begins at home.
Look. I have no problem accepting that the severity of the drought in that region could be due to deforestation.
That doesn't mean we can't support our farmers through this hardship. Charities have sent millions upon millions of dollar to drought and flood stricken countries overseas, yet when it comes to our own natural disasters, there is an eerie silence. A sense of disbelief that this could be happening in our "lucky country".
Time to get behind your own country, folks, your people need your support.
With regards to rampant deforestation, there is still nobody listening.
All around the world, it's still being done to the last great forests, the Amazon for dams, cattle and sugar, and the Indonesian rainforests for palm oil.
Nobody is waking up.
@icyfroth wrote:
@j*oono wrote:Sorry Icy. I'm all charitied out this Christmas. Six new Kiva loans last night for family members on the x's side. We are doing a gift to the charity of our choice this year for a change instead of the usual bottle of spirits.
My favourite one is to a young farmer in Thanh Hoa City. The loan is to buy sand, cement and bricks to build a toilet as his family has to use a neighbours latrine.
Totally understand, Joono.
Who gives a rat's about the aussie farmer, anyway? Overseas farms and families are much more important.
There's enough ppl losing jobs thanks to the Halal Boycott. Who cares about the livelihoods lost to the Ausse producers who provide the product to be halal certified in the first place.
All that can come from overseas anyway, seeing we're sending money over there to help their farms and families.
Let them deal with halal certification.
i can't believe you are taking joono to task for spending HER money however SHE chooses to. 
@icyfroth wrote:Look. I have no problem accepting that the severity of the drought in that region could be due to deforestation.
That doesn't mean we can't support our farmers through this hardship. Charities have sent millions upon millions of dollar to drought and flood stricken countries overseas, yet when it comes to our own natural disasters, there is an eerie silence. A sense of disbelief that this could be happening in our "lucky country".
Time to get behind your own country, folks, your people need your support.
That's the thing, nobody said not to support our own farmers or that we would not support our own farmers.
I support our farmers by buying Australian produce, preferably as directly as possible instead of via the supermarkets who screw them as hard as they can. As a long term measure though they need to revegetate some of the land because pasture alone is not sustainable and soon transforms into a dust bowl.
Hoping they all have a good day today and a better season coming.
Happy Christmas.
@*pepe wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
@j*oono wrote:Sorry Icy. I'm all charitied out this Christmas. Six new Kiva loans last night for family members on the x's side. We are doing a gift to the charity of our choice this year for a change instead of the usual bottle of spirits.
My favourite one is to a young farmer in Thanh Hoa City. The loan is to buy sand, cement and bricks to build a toilet as his family has to use a neighbours latrine.
Totally understand, Joono.
Who gives a rat's about the aussie farmer, anyway? Overseas farms and families are much more important.
There's enough ppl losing jobs thanks to the Halal Boycott. Who cares about the livelihoods lost to the Ausse producers who provide the product to be halal certified in the first place.
All that can come from overseas anyway, seeing we're sending money over there to help their farms and families.
Let them deal with halal certification.
i can't believe you are taking joono to task for spending HER money however SHE chooses to.
I can't believe you think I did. If you reread my post above where I said I totally understand?
Joono can do what she likes, I'm sure she's a big girl now.
