A 16-year-old girl from regional Victoria has started a petition to help save dairy farmers, as her family’s dairy farm struggles under the weight of milk price cuts.

Chloe Scott appeared on the TODAY show this morning alongside her father, Brendan, to call on Agricultural Minister Barnaby Joyce to “please step in urgently… and review the milk pricing system.”

The Scott family’s dairy farm in Boorcan is one of many across the nation struggling to stay afloat.

Chloe’s change.org petition has amassed more than 131,000 signatures to date, which she said has “taken everyone by surprise.”

“The reaction was all-of-a-sudden, so many people got on board,” Chloe said.

Chloe is urging people to unite to appeal for change and reverse the cuts to prevent dairy farmers being “stripped financially by the greed of others”, a move her father supports.

“I’d encourage everyone to buy branded products, buy Australian and send a huge message to supermarkets that milk has a value,” Mr Scott said.

Her father, Brendan, said the family has suffered “a huge blow to our income” after the milk price cuts.

The petition comes after the two largest milk processing plants, Murray Goulburn and Fonterra, slashed the price they pay farmers for their milk for the season.

The Scott family are now being paid 15c per litre of milk – a significant cut from the former 55c a litre they were receiving before the price slash.

“I’ve made the drastic measure of getting rid of a few cows,” Mr Scott said. “I’ve trucked cows off the farm to my brother’s farm near Colac… so we’re back to the bare minimum.”

The Scott’s dairy farm is now producing 1000L of milk less than they were at the same time last year and are losing “somewhere between $400-$500 a day.”

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has visited dairy farmers this week as part of his election campaign, praising the work of Coles which has promised to boost the price by 20 cents per litre .

“I know other people have a sense of cynicism about it – I don’t,” Mr Joyce said after speaking to dairy farmers in Shepparton on Wednesday.