At Pindar, east of Mullewa, local farmer Lindsay Olman described a 32mm soaking rain event on Sunday night as "magic".

"This will set our crop now and all the red country around here will shine," he said. "With more rain forecast this week it has set up a positive expectancy that we might have a good year.

"This rain went straight in and I think we have enough water in the ground now to at least get a result."

Mullewa farmer Ian Broad was equally enthusiastic about the season, reporting a total of 42mm since last Wednesday, including 14mm on Sunday night.

"We've had perfect showery rain that has just soaked in and the crops are looking good and the feed is getting away," he said. "It certainly has been a positive start even though we're a bit late in getting crop in this year."

Irwin farmer Sally O'Brien was all smiles this week after the family property received 43mm since last Wednesday. The O'Brien's run cattle, sheep and crop 2400ha and Sally said the rain would benefit all enterprises.

"We started cropping late on May 25 because we waited for the break after a dry spell which started last November," she said.

"It's all in now and it will benefit greatly from this rain. All up we've now had 110mm for June and that's also been brilliant for feed so at the moment we're looking at a perfect season so far.

"Now we hope we can get a few more regular showers through the growing season and some good finishing rains."

Most districts in the Central Wheatbelt recorded double figure showers over the seven day period from last Wednesday though few bettered more than 20mm.

Mt Walker farmer Mark Wilson said a prolonged dry spell saw him reduce his cropping program by 40 per cent.

"Since last Thursday we have received 25mm which is the most substantial amount of rain we've had this year," he said. "We've had about 70mm of rain for the year and it is the driest year since we started keeping rainfall records in 1950.

"It has been dry as a bone here for most of the year and it just became too late to put in crop on the red country," he said. "So I had to chop off 40pc of the program.

"But this rain has given us hope and the feed is starting to get away so we just want more rain."

North west of the Wilson family property at Muntadgin, Neil Rogerson reported "very strippy" rainfall.

"You can go from farm to farm and see a big difference from wet paddocks to dust," he said.

"We received 45mm for the week on our eastern farm and 25mm on the home block so that will help and take some pressure off.

"We finished seeding last week but some guys around here have just started on this rain."

At Bodallin, local farmer Toll Temby said he received about 30mm of rain in the last week adding to 20mm since May.

Mr Temby said things were getting tight in some areas east of Merredin because of the dry start, but the rain in the past week or two had eased that pressure.

He said it had been his best start to a season since the crop record year of 2003, when 14.7 million tonnes of grain was produced.

Mr Temby planted 3500ha of wheat this year and 400ha of barley. He had canola seed ready to plant but decided against it in drying conditions.

"We have made a great start and can go without moisture for a month or so now," he said. "The crop is out of the ground and we could do with a bit of sunshine."

Cuballing farmers Roger and Simon Newman finished a 4100ha program last Wednesday, benefiting from season-breaking rain of 20mm on May 21 after dry sowing 800ha of canola.

Since that break they planted a further 1000ha of canola, 450ha of oats, 350ha of barley and 1500ha of wheat with rainfall totaling 70mm during the period.

With seeding only just completed there is not a lot showing as yet and even with the late start compared to last season, Roger said that crops within the area depend on an end of season finish.

Rainfall throughout the Cuballing area averaged between 10 and 15mm last weekend.

At Burracoppin, David Junk remained upbeat about the prospects of his 3200ha crop after receiving a total of 10mm of rain since last Wednesday.

"We still haven't got any water in the dams but this rain was very timely for the crops," he said. "We're on the lucky side (north) of Great Eastern Highway and we're copped a few showers since we started seeding.

"This rain will get us on our way."

Gnowangerup contract sprayer Donald Brown was hoping 30mm of rain that fell throughout the district last weekend will spark more business.

"The rain is important for everybody," he said. "We've been sitting around a lot but hopefully we'll get some calls from farmers wanting to spray out weed germinations.

"It looks like we've got some decent spraying days coming up so I'm asking farmers to call me so we can capitalise on the weather."

Lake King farmer Steve King also was in a positive mood after a week that produced 9mm of rain on his property.

He finished a 9000ha cropping program two weeks ago with two thirds established dry.

"Most crops were put in late around here and some guys are still going," he said. "It has been patchy but we've been lucky and everybody wants a big rain."

Most south coastal farmers continue to benefit from good showery activity but east Esperance farmer Phil Longmire, Beaumont, said the 70mm of rain recorded since he started establishing a 4200ha program on June 6 will be a substantial benefit to crops.

"We waited for the break to get everything in and we're finishing off with peas this week," he said.

"We received 340mm of rain during the summer but it was very dry in April and May which is why we went in late.

"With the June rain we're on track and touch wood we get a kind finish."