A week can be a long time in grain markets, and the one just passed was no exception.
More than 200 millimetres - or eight inches in the old scale - of soaking rain was received in parts of the southern and central New South Wales cropping belts since Thursday last week.
That is something agriculturalists will look back on fondly.
With year-to-date totals now comfortably exceeding total rainfall received in most parts of the state during the 2018 and 2019 cropping seasons, the stage is once again set for another thumping East Coast crop this winter.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), current root zone soil moisture throughout the entire NSW cropping belt - relative to historical values - is rated from "very much above average" to the "highest 1 per cent".
Not only has the rainfall filled the moisture profile, but also our major inland water storages.
Burrinjuck Dam is now about 85 per cent full, Blowering Dam is at more than 75 per cent capacity and Wyangala Dam has exceeded 70 per cent full, giving confidence to irrigators where the majority already have 100 per cent allocation until June - and are carrying the expectation forward of a comfortable allocation for July onwards.
You wouldn't know it, given all the rain down the East Coast, but La Nina is officially finished.
The outlook for April across the East Coast still remains wetter than usual, as the last remnants of the La Nina system wash through.
The BoM forecast for May is neutral.
But the dry trend is expected to continue for our Western Australian counterparts.
The long-range climate models continue to forecast a potential negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) to form by late winter.
Without raining on the parade too much, the only dampener at present would be that felt by some summer croppers who are due to start their sorghum harvest in northern NSW and southern Queensland - where grain quality and yield may have been compromised.
There are also logistical challenges now in moving grain where railroads have been completely submerged or washed away, silos have become inaccessible, silo bags are untenable and truck drivers are even harder to come by.
The heavy grain export program has put a bigger burden on an already pressured supply chain.
An unavailability of rail across most major lines is stretching the friendship further with the trucking network.
As shipping demurrage rates have almost tripled in less than 12 months, to well over $20,000 per day, timely execution has never been more important.
Weather aside, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is due to release its much-anticipated March quarterly Stocks and Acreage Reports on Wednesday.
This is likely to weigh heavily on markets, and dictate pricing movements for the coming months.
Tight supplies of soybeans throughout the US, and current pricing relatives to corn in favor of soybean plantings, means a favorable shift to soybeans is the likely result.
With the sowing window opening up, it is fair to say that - from a winter crop perspective - things couldn't look any better for this time of year.
With a full moisture profile below the ground and a favorable short to medium-term weather forecast, it's time to get busy burning diesel in the hot seat.