THE showers may be lighter than previous weeks, but the fronts keep on coming, topping up soil reserves and keeping the season on track.
The South West Land Division had small rainfall totals over the last week, with the southern coastal area receiving the lion's share.
Esperance recorded 39mm, Albany 28mm, Mount Barker 22mm and Munglinup 10mm, with more showers forecast for this week.
In the Great Southern, crops were topped up with light falls as Kojonup received 14mm, Wagin 6mm, Frankland 11mm and Lake Grace 5mm.
The central Wheatbelt stayed relatively dry, as everywhere recorded single digits in the rain gauge with Dalwallinu at 8mm, Wongan Hills 7mm, Merredin 7mm and Bencubbin 6mm.
The northern Wheatbelt fared better as Yuna recorded 14mm, Morawa 11mm Mingenew 14mm and Mullewa 13mm.
Widespread showers have been forecast across the Wheatbelt this week, with most areas to receive up to 10mm.
A drive around the farm last week convinced Mingenew grower James Dempster to top up with nitrogen.
Cropping a combined 5300 hectares south of Mingenew and a second property near Arrino, James and his brother Tim had planted 3600ha of wheat, 1400ha lupins and 300ha of canola, although James said in hindsight they would have planted more canola.
"The canola price has been good, so if we had to go back again, we would have put more in," he said.
This week, Tim was finishing off the radish spraying, while James is going back over some areas with urea.
"We're setting up for a three tonne a hectare wheat crop this year," he said.
"We had already been over everything once with urea but after a drive around last week, we've decided to go over the wheat-on-wheat and wheat-on-canola paddocks again."
He said this year the pair decided to use an Intake coated fertiliser to reduce the need to spray for powdery mildew.