Bumper wheat for Geoff and Sue

In fact, the 40 hectares of chickpeas behind their house on their 1000ha home property, just south of Bolgart, is their worst crop this season, but not due to frost.

"The weeds have got us beat this year in the chick peas," said Geoff.

His 160ha of RR canola, 230ha of Bass barley and 450ha of Mace wheat are grown on two nearby properties and are looking good.

The canola was swathed last week and Geoff has hired a pick-up front for the header, due in a fortnight, but may have to start on the barley before then.

"The barley is going off rapidly so I might have to make a start on it then drop everything and go back to the canola when the pick-up front arrives," he said.

"Everything is going to be ready at the same time."

Geoff estimated the canola would go "two plus" tonnes per hectare.

"We've been up to two before but this is better, it's more even, all the crops are more even, we had beautiful rain all the way through."

His barley is looking "reasonable" and should go malt grade.

"With the long season there's a bit of rye grass coming through," Geoff said.

But the wheat is the pick of his crops at this stage.

"It's looking like it will go 3.8-4 tonne this year, we normally average about three tonnes per hectare.

"There was just the occasional wet patch but it's come through that.

"There's also 140 hectares of lupins that didn't look too good for a start, we lost most of the pods on the primaries - it could have been the frost - but then the secondaries have come good.

"It often seems to be when the lupins really go well and are bushy you don't get such a good yield but, fortunately this year with the extended finish, the laterals have been able to come good and make up for everything."