Local Land Services has announced 2000 landholders will participate in the spring baiting program this year - a 50 per cent rise on 2015 - to halt a pest animal that has become increasingly brazen in regional NSW.

Farmers across the state have attested to the rise in wild dog numbers over the past few years and the livestock that has suffered as a result.

Ebor beef farmer Fraser James, 52,  said he knew of people who had lost 15 to 20 per cent of their stock to wild dogs. 

​“One of the only effective ways to control is through co-ordinated baiting programs – and they’re the most cost-effective way to do it too,” Mr James said. 

“You’ve got to be realistic – we’re never going to be able to get rid of them completely. But we can manage them to a level that leaves your business sustainable.”