Feral deer are invading a sheep farm on the outskirts of Cooma in NSW, where landholders are battling to stop the four-legged pests from encroaching.
"They're coming in and I don't want them," NSW farmer Craig Mitchell told AAP.
He's welcomed a plan released on Monday to reduce deer numbers across the country.
"The plan is a good start, it's a simple explanation of the threat posed by deer, and effective ideas on how to control them," Mr Mitchell said.
He says over the past year about 5000 deer have been culled by landholders across a 10,000 hectare area, but that is "not making a dent".
Australia's first national deer plan provides guidance and actions for public and private land managers and groups who are impacted by feral deer, or are likely to be impacted.
Under the plan farmers have the option of shooting, baiting and trapping across the country, although baiting is still to be approved.
But in Victoria and Tasmania deer remain protected for hunting purposes, and farmers say that's a problem.
"It just aids their spread," Mr Mitchell said.
The Invasive Species Council wants a more consistent approach to deer across the country.
The report found current populations are too high to be controlled by recreational hunting alone or by recent control efforts.
"It's time that Victoria and Tasmania aligned with the rest of Australia and stopped protecting deer," Peter Jacobs from the Invasive Species Council said.
"That will help farmers reduce the impact of deer on their economic viability."
It is estimated deer cost Australian agriculture about $70 million a year.
A recent report from the Centre for the Invasive Species Solutions found that toll included damage to crops and reduction of pasture for livestock.
NSW Farmers' Kathy Rankin welcomed the new national plan but says there must be a more co-ordinated approach for invasive species across all tiers of government.
"Whether it's feral deer, pigs, dogs or cats, none of these pests have any understanding about fences or boundaries and they certainly don't operate in geographic isolation," Ms Rankin said.
"We need all land managers - public and private alike - doing their part to break the breeding cycle and deal with pest animals and weeds, otherwise we'll keep seeing them return again and again."
Former beef farmer Ted Rowley, who chairs the national feral deer action plan committee and helped devise the plan, says landholders have a key role.
"If you're in an area with large feral deer numbers, you will need the help from your neighbours, from the council, from public agencies to help manage deer across across the landscape," he said.
"The job for farmers is to recognise that if they're on the edge of a deer zone if they see a deer they shoot it."
