The project, also known as the FWFA extension project, leveraged five new Bureau of Meteorology forecast products for extreme events and knowledge gathered from the original national Forewarned is Forearmed project to develop high-quality, practical, useful extension packages that could be used across Southern Australia.

Project outputs:

• High-quality learning materials and resources to support FWFA producer workshop delivery created.
• Ten pilot deliverers were trained to use the FWFA tools and to deliver workshops to producers.
• Five face-to-face pilot workshops were delivered to 32 producers in different regions across southern Australia, and different industries.
• Thirty-seven advisors completed the train-the trainer process, representing the red meat, dairy, grain, wine, sugar and cotton industries.

Benefits of the project:

• A suite of resources for advisors and producers which can be used to support learning about and confidence building for using the FWFA resources.
• Trained advisors who can facilitate workshops with producers to support their learning journey.
• More resilient producers who will be supplying food and fibre to Australia.

Read the project report

Project lead

Meat and Livestock Australia

Project funding

The FWFA extension project received support the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund, through the Southern NSW Innovation Hub and Meat and Livestock Australia.