Southern Victoria has played a vital part in this year's harvest with record high receivals notched at a number of centres.
With drought conditions and crops in some areas suffering from either a late start or an early finish, crops in the higher rainfall areas were welcomed by grain handlers.
GrainCorp corporate affairs manager Jess Simons said harvest in western Victoria was "largely complete", with a couple of deliveries trickling in and sites mostly open by appointment only.
Overall Victorian receivals to GrainCorp sites was 2,822,200 tonnes.
Ms Simons said the season across the western district performed "really well" compared to previous years.
"In particular we saw better intakes at our sites in Willaura and Naracoorte, SA," she said.
"Westmere received more than 100,000t for the first time ever, Berrybank received more than 69,500t and we eventually reached capacity at that site."
She said most receivals comprised mostly canola and wheat, along with a bit of barley and red wheat.
"These results are obviously thanks to a bumper season for growers who received the right rain at the right time, and it's good to see prices are holding strong for them as well," she said.
Miners Rest livestock and grain producer Andrew Fraser had 320 hectares of his 800ha program to go.
Mr Fraser said with rain being forecast for the weekend, he hoped to have the crop off before then.
So far the best red wheat paddock had yielded 6.8t/ha and white wheat more than 5t/ha.
He said a number of paddocks got too wet over winter, reducing yields.
He said he would shift more towards the red wheats for the stockfeed market which provided higher yields and prices that were within $10/t of white wheat.
Sea Lake-based contract harvester operator Andrew McClelland said work in the higher rainfall areas of southern Victoria now comprised more than 50 per cent.
This year's contract work in the south included farms at Skipton, Trawalla, Brewster, Glenbrae, Waubra, Burrumbeet, Coghills Creek, Ascot, Clunes and Minors Rest.
From south of Skipton, Vernon Dawson said this year's harvest had gone smoothly with just one wet day.
Mr Dawson said the total fire ban days were forecast well in advance so they could be worked around.
He said the receival sites at Lakaput and Westmere had also been extremely helpful in staying open after hours to allow for deliveries.
He said the yields were much better than the 2018/19 harvest when frost damaged crops.
"This year it was nudging getting too wet but the early sown crops were okay while the late sown crops really struggled," he said.
