JUST a few millimetres of rain were enough to cost grain grower Brett Hosking a day of his canola harvest – in the first paddock.

He has the lentils done and dusted but, after the canola, the Quambatook farmer still has the barley and wheat to go.

With a perfect run from here on, he figures he could give the bulk of it “a good shove” in the next four weeks.

But there is rain forecast late...