VICTORIAN farmers must come together to overcome the threat of wild dogs during this upcoming lambing season.

That's the message from Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Vice President and Talgarno farmer Peter Starr.

"It's a statewide issue and the issue is getting worse," Mr Starr said.

"Obviously we have increased wild dog activity in the North West where the unprotection order has been lifted and farmers are now forced to watch on helplessly as wild dogs kill their sheep upon their farms.

"Before the unprotection order was lifted it seemed to be singular dogs while we are now receiving more reports of pack activity.

"I keep hearing reports of attacks on sheep in the north east around Mansfield.

"I am increasingly getting phone calls from farmers in my area in the upper north east around Talgarno and they are very concerned by the increase in wild dog activity that they are noticing.

"They have had trouble with wild dogs in Taggerty for a while and now it seems those dogs have pushed in on the city and have been seen around Lilydale."

The issue is anything but new for Victorian farmers or the federation who represents their interests and is resigned to the fact that more sheep are going to be killed on farms.

"There's just no silver bullet where wild dogs are concerned," he said.

"There is or there certainly should be a living to be made in sheep farming but not while they're being eaten alive on farms around the state.

"Community awareness helps.

"And to get to community awareness we need those going through the dog problem to speak about it, to communicate with each other.

"Report dog attacks and sightings to your local controller.

"The more he knows about what's going on, the better.

"Use the Feral Scan app whenever you encounter a wild dog on your farm.

"And come together as a community.

"That's the best tool farmers have at the moment - each other.

"Coordinated community baiting can be an effective tool to manage wild dogs in an area.

"People need to come together to try to contend with the worsening wild dog problem, that's the way forward."