“This drought, that’s Mother Nature and we have no control over that,” he said.
“Primary production across this country, the prices are way too low and we are seriously getting affected,” he said.
“The most effective way people can support farmers like Jason is through campaigns like the buy-a-bale program we are running, because it consolidates the money which can be used to buy fodder, groceries or provide the mental health support our farmers need,” Charles Alder, the founder of Rural Aid, told Today.
He said Rural Aid had raised almost $1 million in the past week to help farmers like Mr Maloney.
John Haycock is a third-generation farmer in Dubbo, NSW.
NSW is virtually out of hay and we’ve got a pre-order to get grain for us and we can’t find it.
It’s just being sold overseas,” he said.
Today Woolworths announced it would invest $1.5 million into the buy-a-bale program which directly helps farmers in need.
Mr Haycock said the government looked after the framers during the bad drought of 1982.
“A lot of these guys and girls are really lonely,” he said.