The driest June on record in recent times was June 2011 when just 10mm fell.

Despite the lack of rain Elders Cowra Agronomist Peter Watt, said if rain returns to average levels the season will soon be back on track.

“We are still on the back of a very good start to the season,” he said on Wednesday, one of Cowra’s rare wet days this month.

“The rain that started in March and continued all through May is what set us up.

“The rain five to six weeks ago of 40mm to 70mm was really what stuck to our ribs, up until a couple of weeks ago it was full steam ahead.

“People have just become a bit cautious and the run of frost has meant that feed is not growing.

“We have the winter choke, so we had good growth, but now we are getting slow growth as well.

“I guess people are nervously looking at feed reserves and probably adjusting stocking accordingly and will consider supplementary feeding in the next couple of weeks to get through the cold month of July.”

DPI models indicated the Pacific Ocean was remaining in an ENSO neutral state, with the outlook from most global climate models suggesting neutral conditions continuing into winter and spring, which Mr Watt said would be fine.

“If there is come confidence about the back of the season, we’ll just take this as aberrant but not devastating,” he said.

“It’s just a dry month and we can certainly get wet again in July and early August and that will give us as big a spring as we need.

“If we can just dial up average rain from here on in we’ll get away with a good season, which is two inches a month 40mm to 50mm in July, that’s happy days and we’re back on track.

“But it’s been six weeks without rain and that’s a reasonably extended period without rain.

“The flip side to that is that the last three weeks of fine sunny weather had been very easy on stock and people aren’t getting bogged and are getting a lot of chores done around the farm that would normally be put on hold in a wet winter.

“People have just become a little bit cautious but they’ll re-engage with their optimism as it rains in July.”

The DPI also reported that some areas of NSW had been reporting high levels of insect and rodent pests.

Mr Watt said Cowra had been spared those issues.

“We’ve certainly seen red legged earth mites and some insect pests,” he said.

“But you do go into a winter period where the effect of the insects are slightly less, and that will build up as weather warms in late July, early August again.

“There is the odd isolated talk about mice, but in the main we’ve been spared significant mice issues.

“That is happening in other parts of the state but we’re just seeing nuisance ones in and around sheds, certainly by no means a problem in the paddock.”