The Department of Primary Industries has reported 61 per cent of NSW is currently in drought, with the Central West region worst affected.
Read more Councillors Cass Coleman and Maree Statham said the drought had very much arrived for their constituents.
“I’ve been out to a lot of functions recently with farmers in Rydal, Glen Alice, Tarana, Meadow Flat, and the farming industry is in dire straights at the moment,” Cr Statham said.
“I was speaking to an auctioneer and he said the mood at the cattle yard is depressing.
“We’re losing sheep due to the conditions.
And we’re not living off the land, so I can’t imagine what other farmers are going through,” Cr Coleman said.
Cr Coleman proposed council lobby Bathurst MP Paul Toole for details on how the newly appointed Drought Coordinator would assist farmers in Lithgow.
Sheep being fed in the dry conditions.
Picture: Central Tablelands Local Land Services.
Ms Statham said the proposal did not imply a conflict of interest as she had “no intention of feeding” her stock, instead selling off cattle.