Victoria should experience more settled weather, with lower rainfall, in the coming week, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).
Duty forecaster Peter Newham said most of Victoria would experience light showers today, in a southerly flow.
“They are passing showers, not amounting to large rainfall totals,” Mr Newham said.
“There’ll be a millimetre or two in places, in Victoria, and tomorrow the showers will tend to clear, during the day.”
Wednesday should be dry, before a weak front cross Victoria on Friday.
Mr Newham said it was expected to bring light falls, of between one and five millimetres.
“The weather is driven by this large high west of Tasmania, we have got the southerlies around the eastern side of that,” Mr Newham said.
“Any significant rain has now gone.”
Ouyen’s Adam O’Callaghan said vetch, lupins and lentils had now been planted and the cereals should be in the ground, by the end of the month.
“Hopefully we can get a few weeks on nice weather, so we can get our sowing program, up to date – it’s been a dream start, the sun is out and everything is up and growing,” Mr O’Callaghan said.
“The ground is still warm and everything is growing, really well.”
He said farmers would now be looking for follow up rain, in the next few weeks.
“You’re always wondering when that next rain event is coming to top up that moisture profile, it won’t take a lot, but you want that rain every two or three weeks, during winter.”
Swan Hill cropper Leigh Bryan said the season was off to a “text book start,” on his properties to the south-west of the town.
He said he was growing cereals and pluses on 2400 hectares.
He said in March, the farm had received an average of 30millimetres, with follow up falls of 50mm a month later and another 16mm on Anzac Day.
“If you were going to order it, it’s pretty much what you would order and when,” Mr Bryan said.
“We are scrambling to get the seed in, on the moisture we have got there, because we might not get any more, until June,” he said.
Matt Rohde, Lorquon and Jeparit, said follow up rain, in a couple of weeks, would be handy.
“Things are starting to dry up, but there’s still good moisture underneath for all the crops to come up,” Mr Rohde said.
Vetch and canola crops were out of the ground, with the last falls bringing up the weeds and creating ideal sowing conditions.
“10-15mm wouldn’t be too bad, not too much to hold us up for too long, but just enough to keep us ticking along.”
He said he was currently planting wheat and barley, with field peas to go in, in the next few weeks.
The recent falls had been “just enough to dampen things again, we are still sowing into moisture, in some paddocks, which is good.”
