PERRY St Quintin still finds it amusing when weather reports refer to Moora as the "northern Wheatbelt".
"I think people forget that it goes on for another 500 kilometres past there," he said.
Perry and mother Jane have been farming at Ant Hill Farm, 40km north of Yuna, for more than 16 years.
The pair decided to try their hand at farming after Jane ran an extensive trucking business in South Africa.
"We quite honestly knew nothing about farming at that point and most of what we have learnt has been through trial and error and what our neighbours have shown us," Jane said.
While the average person could be forgiven for thinking that the only thing that grows up around Yuna is wildflowers, Ant Hill Farm continues to show impressive, albeit variable, yields, with a five-year average of 1.6 tonnes per hectare.
About 4000has of their 6400ha farm is arable and soils vary from light sands, to red sands through to red heavy soils.
They also have a second property, 36km west of Ant Hill Farm.
Due to the wide ranging soils on Ant Hill Farm, Mr St Quintin said they try and maximise their yields but generally "don't try anything too fancy".
In the past they have tried a variety of barley, wheat and canola on the property, but with little to no soil moisture this year, they have stuck to wheat.
"We had no summer rain so our knockdown program was a token gesture, with a small amount of glyphosate, trifluralin and some Sakura," he said.
Mr St Quintin said they had a "very laid back" seeding this year, starting on April 20 and finishing on May 26.
"We started dry seeding and there was a lot of stop-start as we waited for the rain to come," he said.
"In the end, we cut about 500ha off the cropping program where it just got too dry."
While many WA growers have seen yield improvements with wheat variety Mace, Mr St Quintin said it had not performed well on their property.
This year they are growing a few different varieties - Magenta, Calingiri, Bonnie Rock, Westonia and Wyalkatchem.
"We have found that Wyalkatchem has continually been the star performer on our property and has always done much better than Mace," he said.
"Westonia, even though it is an old variety, has also been the only one that does well on our really acidic soils."
With temperatures topping about 24 degrees over the past few days and with very little soil moisture, all eyes were on the sky for some much-needed rain.
"The front we had a couple of weeks ago really kept us going, so we just need a little more to get us through now," he said.
