According to the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) about 1.3 million hectares of the state is currently under water.

While much of this area is in the central west producers in southern NSW have reported big losses too.

Farmers located on rivers and creeks have lost fences and infrastructure and had to move livestock to higher ground.

And for many the flood threat is not over with another front and more rain forecast to hit the region on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.  

Despite the big flush of spring feed some livestock producers have resorted to hand feeding because their paddocks were inundated with water.

Gundagai producer Brendan Daley of “Wonga”, says river farmers have moved stock to higher ground. 

“I have moved all of my sheep and cattle and I probably lost four flood gates,” he said. 

Mr Daley said in terms of damage the flooding – so far – was not as significant as 2012. But he didn’t think the threat was completely over.

He said each time it rained the flooding got worse because there was nowhere for the water to go with the storages and catchments being full. He said some producers were comparing the flooding to the 2010 event which occurred in October and November. He said despite the similarities in 2012 it was difficult to compare because it happened in March. 

NSW DPI state emergency coordinator Simon Oliver said extensive aerial surveillance continues across the vast area of flooded agricultural land in the central west.

“Over 1.3 million hectares of land is currently under water, and it is only expected to increase as the catchments are saturated and the rain continues,” he said.

“We have conducted aerial mustering and fodder drops to stranded livestock, and these are expected to increase due to the prolonged flood conditions; many areas are expected to remain inundated for several weeks,” Mr Oliver said.