Apparently, though, the unprecedented rain that fell in the lead-up - he had 200mm - caught out a few of his neighbours.

"We had neighbours that were taking up to five hours to get machines out," he recalled.

"Some people had to bring in excavators to dig around to get the headers out."

Mr Lieschke, who has four properties with his brother Nigel in the Walbundrie-Alma Park district, says it's been an interesting season.

The pair, who had 1300 hectares of crop in (canola, wheat and a smattering of barley), are still going with harvest ... like so many of their counterparts.

Wet conditions have dragged out the season, down-graded crops and caused problems on the ground with machinery.

"We're not used to going for so long - we're normally finished by the second week in December," Mr Lieschke said.

"For one of my neighbours, when his first truckload (of grain) went out this year, typically that would have been his last!

"People have had to leave pieces in their paddocks and go back to clean it up when it dries out."

While many grain growers are still sitting in headers post-Christmas, Mr Lieschke insists there's always more money in mud.

Besides the vagaries of manoeuvring 12 to 20-tonne machinery over wet ground and grain quality de-graded, it's been a good season.

"It's dragged out," he said.

"But I'd say it's still a better season than last year; yields are up and prices are $10 better (a tonne) even though the quality is down.

"We're certainly not whingeing about the soil profile - but if the rain had happened after harvest it would have been even better.

"A lot of damage has been done to paddocks when headers got bogged so there's a bit of work to be done to fix that."

Mr Lieschke said they had been fortunate in that their undulating country had allowed them to get their canola harvested in a timely fashion.

"Plus, we're that bloody slow doing stuff, it was nearly dried out when we got to it," he laughed.

Meanwhile their 1000 breeding ewes are "looking brilliant" thanks to the lush season.