Cattle breed societies are the latest in a growing list of rural organisations to provide donations to the Country Women's Association Drought Relief Fund distribution after they were denied further government assistance.
The NSW State Committee of Angus Australia recently donated $5000 to CWA who assist drought affected farmers with household expenses.
The donation came after discussions at the November NSW State Committee meeting, where chairman Mark Lucas brought the subject to the group as a way to assist members in NSW affected by drought and fire.
NSW State Committee chairman Mark Lucas said the following in regards to the decision to make the donation to the CWA.
"The option was brought up as it is the State Committees' charter to represent all of New South Wales, which is obviously a big state with a lot of members in it and in doing so we especially focused on the northern part of the state to the Queensland border who are pretty much now entering their third year of pretty abject seasonal misfortune," he said.
"Dealing on an individual level is difficult, so we saw the CWA as a positive and proactive body for them to be out there looking at the people that are in a tough time, and we are hoping that the small donation that we have made, which is out of some accumulated funds from NSW across the few decades it's been running, that they would be the body that would distribute it to the people that needed it the most."