President of the Wagga branch of NSW Farmers, Alan Brown, said legislation would be a step in the right direction to stop the attacks.

"I fully support legislative back up to authorities because this sort of stuff has to stop, they don't understand what they're looking at or what's going on," he said.

"Activists think they know everything but they don't."

Mr Brown said harsher penalties would benefit everyone and reinforce common courtesy the animal activists seem to have forgotten.

"More sting into law must be an addition to behaving in a respectful manner," he said.

"It's only 1/10 that need to have legislative reinforcement, 9/10 are doing the right thing and will acknowledge a sign that says keep out."

It is not just a risk to the farmers' safety according to Mr Brown, but also the animals.

"Particularly with intensive industries like piggeries and chicken farms, it is disease entry that becomes a huge risk, so if you have people crossing over from one farm to another, like chook farms, if they get a viral infection they can wipe out a whole business," he said.

Mr Brown urged the activists to recognise that farmers know their industry and know the importance of animal welfare.

"The best way to deal with it is to leave the actual activity to the experts, people who know what they're doing," he said.

"Usually the owner of the establishment knows what they're doing but they're also backed by government expertise, so there's no point where animal activists should be involved other than setting broad parameters of what is right and wrong."

Mr Littleproud said the incidents resulting from the Aussie Farms 'activist attack map' are targeting 'innocent Australians'.

"Animal welfare groups have lost their social licence. They have no moral compass when they are prepared to intimidate innocent Australians and their actions taint their own cause," he said. 

Mr Littleproud described the current penalties being handed out for trespassing onto farms across the country as 'utterly ridiculous', and called for more severe punishments to be legislated.

"The slaps on the wrist being handed out to animal activists invading family farms is encouraging them to escalate their efforts," he said.

"A real deterrent is needed before someone gets seriously hurt or killed. 

"There are children living on these family farms."

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