Young Farmers Connect supports practices and policies that will sustain young, independent and prosperous farmers now and in the future.
Our regional chapters, members and supporters stand by a shared set of guiding principles that inform our work.

As a community of young farmers and consumers, we support:

• Independent farming enterprises: For the future resiliency and viability of our food system, and for healthy rural communities, it is critical that we continue fostering an independent network of farms throughout Australia.
• Sustainable farming practices: Farmers maintain the vast majority of the Australian land mass and are some of the best land stewards there are. We want to ensure that our food system and economy supports farming practices that sustain healthy soil, water and air, and that will protect our climate for the next generation.
• Affordable land for farmers: Farmers must have access to high-quality, affordable and secure farmland. While long-term leases remain critical, land ownership allows farmers to make capital improvements and build equity for long term financial security, as well as offering personal satisfaction. We will support endevours that aim to improve farmland security for our members and advocate for new models of farmland trusts.
• Fiar labour practices: All farmers should receive a fair living wage, proper care and support when sick or injured. Farming is deeply satisfying and necessary work and the health, wellbeing and livelihoods of farm workers should not be put in jeapardy.
• Farmer-to-farmer training: Much farming knowledge is passed down or learned through experience. We support mentorship, skills sharing and apprenticeship models and believe farmer-to farmer learning opportunities should be supported for young farmers.
• Farmers of every gender, race and sexual orientation: Inclusiveness and diversity among farmers is critical to maintaining a vibrant agricultural sector.
• Cooperation and friendship between all farmers. We support collaboration between all producers regardless of production philosophy or other issues.
• Farmers of all types and ages are essential to passing down knowledge to the next generation of growers. But the responsibility should not be theirs alone. We must create supportive pathways for knowledge exchange.