Rural Solutions agronomist Kieran Wauchope said showers were forecast for today and tomorrow, but how much it would bring remains to be seen.

He said the rain last Friday, Saturday and Sunday was variable across the region, with Butler Tanks receiving only eight millimetres, while areas on the West Coast got between 20 and 25mm.

“Some people are happy with the falls they got, but you go in other areas and there wasn’t much in it,” Mr Wauchope said.

“I wouldn’t say it was the main break, we still need a fair bit more to wet the soil profile through.”

He said farmers on Lower Eyre Peninsula wouldn’t rush into seeding anytime soon, however further north around Cummins growers would start seeding soon because of the shorter growing season.

“Some people would be positive of a good season but there’s still a lot of reservation about the season.”

Wanilla farmer Don Oats said with chemicals, fertiliser and diesel input prices going through the roof, farmers were banking on a good production year and prices to see them through to next year.

“Hopefully it is going to be a pretty good year, otherwise it will be us and a lot of people who won’t be farming,” Mr Oats said.

“If we don’t make a reasonable go of it this year some, I don’t know what will happen, because the input prices I’ve heard for next year are frightening.”

The Oats’s 450-hectare property received 24mm of rain from Friday through to Monday morning, taking the yearly total to 50mm.

“We’re happy that we got what we did, you don’t have to go too far and it was a lot different.”

Mr Oats has been out for the past four days spreading sulphate of ammonia on the paddocks, preparing them for seeding.

He is waiting for another 15mm of rain before he starts planting canola, which will hopefully be within the next week.

This year he will grow canola, wheat and lupins, but no barley, which he hasn’t grown for the past six or seven years.

“I’m sick of growing screenings!”

He hopes to finish seeding by the first week of June.