Ms Rose said feeding her 28 horses was costing her $1,200 a week, where her pre-drought feed costs had been sitting at $600 to $700 a week.
"We just need rain … We have five drops fall from the sky, and we start having a dance, but it's just not enough. "We've seen the horrendous situations faced throughout Queensland and then of course, throughout New South Wales, but even down into northern Victoria and east Gippsland these days are all very, very dry," Mr McKew said.
Mr McKew said prices"ratcheted up quite significantly" through the second half of 2018, and the industry began to notice a spike in demand for fodder products.
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