CENTRAL Queensland pork producer and grain grower Tim Brosnan, said his property Bettafield, north of Biloela, has "gone from being pretty dry to being pretty wet really quickly" after receiving a staggering 320 millimetres in the past week alone.
Mr Brosnan had barely finished watering his 150 hectares of irrigated sorghum last week when the rain started coming in hard and fast on Saturday.
But the big rain was still to come.
"We got 185mm last night - you'd almost say it was too much," Mr Brosnan said.
"We had 90mm in 25 minutes so yeah it was pretty intense.
"It was pretty quick and then we had another storm early this morning about 2am and that was a bit more widespread."
Mr Brosnan said that while sorghum planted in the area would be appreciating the fall and the full ring tanks, farmers who'd recently planted mung beans would be looking at destroyed crops.
He said fallen powerlines and flash flooding in the Callide-Dawson Valley was cutting off roads out of town, notably the Burnett Highway towards Rockhampton.
"It may have done a bit of damage, washing away a few banks and roads and stuff like that," Mr Brosnan said.
"The neighbour lost a fair bit of his paddock and it's in mine now, but there's definitely more good to come out of it than harm."
On the Darling Downs, Oakey grain and cotton farmer Bryn Fanning, Brookvale, said they were on the edge of yesterday's storm.
Mr Fanning said they were hoping to being planting the majority of the country with sorghum mid-way through next week.
"We had 37mm last night and there was 50mm last Friday, with a few small falls in between," he said.
"Up until this rain the only crop we had in was one we had irrigated out of the ground.
"It means a lot to us to be able to get the rest of the dryland country in now out of this rain."
TopX Roma principal Cyril Close said falls continued to be patchy in the Maranoa.
"I know south of Muckadilla there is rain from 26mm to 75mm - that's within about 20km,' he said.
"West of Surat along the river there was only 10mm to 11mm overnight; near the town of Roma there was about 26mm.
"At Injune I heard there has been 100mm, I don't know how widespread that was yet, phones have been out up there since yesterday afternoon.
"Everyone who is getting something is happy but those who are missing out are, rightly so, feeling a bit depressed."
