Feed Standards Australia General Manager Tim Ford spoke to Country Today's Pat Gordon.

It's designed to be a place where people can go to ascertain fuel.

The fuel levy for the week.

It's both a combination of information online about how it's been calculated, what the benchmark prices are, as well as a calculator where people can do their own freight calculations.

For example, people operating transport businesses and farmers and so forth.

It really came about because of just the increasingly uncertainty around fuels.

And we have found that the feedback is that a lot of people, buyers in particular, have been reluctant to buy hay and go into forward contracts for hay because of so much uncertainty around the fuel price.

How has the feedback been from industry as you've been developing this calculator?