Deadline Date: April 14, 2026
The Livestock Biosecurity Funds grant program is currently accepting applications to support initiatives that strengthen animal health, disease prevention, and biosecurity systems within the livestock industries in Victoria.
The program focuses on enhancing animal health, strengthening biosecurity, improving market access, preventing livestock diseases, monitoring livestock diseases, controlling livestock diseases, protecting public health from diseases transmissible from livestock to humans, protecting domestic and export livestock markets, preventing and eradicating exotic livestock diseases, supporting livestock identification and tracking programs, and encouraging innovative solutions, collaboration across value chains, and evidence-based benefits for the livestock industries.
The Victorian Government provides these grants based on advice from industry-led livestock advisory committees to support the cattle, sheep, goat, swine, and honey bee industries in Victoria. Funding is allocated from four livestock compensation funds to support programs or projects that contribute to preventing, monitoring, and controlling livestock diseases. The program aligns with legislative provisions designed to improve disease management and maintain strong livestock industries.
The initiative operates under legislation that aims to prevent, monitor, and control livestock diseases while also providing compensation for losses caused by certain livestock diseases. These measures contribute to protecting public health and maintaining the integrity of domestic and international markets for livestock and livestock products.
The grant program supports projects that introduce innovative approaches and emerging technologies to address unresolved livestock biosecurity challenges. Projects are expected to demonstrate collaboration where possible across livestock value chains and deliver measurable benefits for the broader livestock industries, supported by evidence and data.
Certain activities are not eligible for funding under the program. These include retrospective funding requests, lobbying activities, funding of core organisational activities, emergency animal disease compensation or response activities, capital expenditure, ongoing operational costs such as rent and utilities, activities that create expectations of continued funding, and projects located outside the State of Victoria.
Eligible applicants include private sector businesses and agencies, universities and research institutions, cooperatives whose objectives align with the program, Victorian Government departments or entities, local government authorities, and incorporated associations. Applicants must hold a valid Australian Business Number, be an incorporated body or association, be financially solvent, conduct the proposed activities within Victoria, meet industrial relations obligations under the National Employment Standards, and agree to participate in program evaluation and public communication activities related to the project.
Individuals or sole traders, trusts, partnerships, and federal government departments are not eligible to apply for funding through the program.
For more information, visit Agriculture Victoria.
