Season ‘once in a lifetime’ at Binalong

"Given average rainfall from now until the end of spring, we will have an exceptionally good clover seed set in the spring, producers will be able to turn stock off at good weights with minimal to no supplementary feeding, and it should help producers run a profitable year," he said.

And while Mr Sykes is far from complaining about the current conditions, they have brought with them new management hurdles.

Running 5000 Merino ewes, 2500 weaner sheep and about 350 head of cattle on 1650 hectares, Mr Sykes, who farms with wife Robyn, is seeing foot health issues in his sheep and cattle.

"We have cattle grazing triticale and some have come up lame because their feet are wet all the time," he said.

"At the moment we are keeping an eye on it and treating anything that is adversely affected.

But the foot issue is actually a bigger issue in sheep than cattle, as some of the pastures have extremely high clover content, and that with the fact that they are wet all the time has been causing problems with benign foot rot or scold.

Looking further ahead, Mr Sykes said one of his biggest problems will be lambing difficulties with Merino ewes joined to Terminal rams.