FARMERS in the Liverpool Plains have not been savaged by the wet weather in recent weeks as badly as their counterparts on the mid-north coast and northern NSW, but the conditions have still affected their harvest.
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Over the past week farmers in the region have received around 50mm of rain, and while that's not a huge amount it has come at a bad time for those trying to harvest.
Crops have been damaged, and the persistent rain has made it difficult to complete harvest.
Sorghum and cotton farmer John Hamparsum said it has been disappointing, but there are some silver linings.
"We've been I think fairly fortunate we haven't had too much rain, the timing not good because we're trying to harvest sorghum and there's a bit of weather damage on the sorghum because of the rain," he said.
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"It's not so much we've had too much rain it's more the number of wet days we've had that's damaged the sorghum.
"It wasn't enough to drown the mice unfortunately, but it's been good rain filling up for winter crop."
The amount of rainfall in the Liverpool Plains has been miniscule compared to some of the places up north, however, with farmers in the likes of Moree receiving almost 100mm in 24 hours, which incredibly is more than they had in a year during the worst of the drought.
In Mr Hamparsum's area, a close eye was being kept on the Mooki River, but it never reached levels that were a cause for serious concern.
"It hasn't broken out on the major part of the floodplain, on the lower parts it's just broken out across watercourses so it hasn't caused any damage," he stated.
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