The emotional and financial cost of the worst flooding in a generation is beginning to be felt in New South Wales' central west, and consumers are likely to feel the pain too.
Tens of thousands of hectares of farmland have been inundated by the swollen Lachlan River and its tributaries, in a disaster not equalled in at least 70 years.
It has sparked a warning that produce prices will rise to impact the cost of groceries.
