Warrnambool airport received 25 millimetres of rain on Tuesday, lifting its total so far for April to 88.2mm.

Hamilton received 40mm of Tuesday, lifting its total so far for April to 92.8mm while Port Fairy got 15.2mm on Tuesday to reach 59.8mm for the month so far.

Cape Nelson near Portland got 11.6mm on Tuesday and 43.6mm on Friday to receive 76.4mm for the month so far.

Bade Ness Rural agronomy field services officer Paul Smith said some low-lying areas were very wet after the recent downpours.

Farmers in those low-lying areas would struggle to get vehicles in to spray out paddocks in preparation for planting new pastures.

“They will struggle to get the seed drill in,” Mr Smith said.

However those with lighter soils in more hilly country would not be as affected and their land was likely to only take a few days to dry out., he said.

However many farmers had already sown new pastures and were in line to benefit significantly from this year’s good autumn rains, he said.

“If you have put grass in, it will come out of the ground very quick,” Mr Smith said.

“There is still some warmth in the ground,” he said.

Mr Smith said his firm had sold more seed for perennial pastures this year compared to last year.

Many farmers had bought seed for annual pastures last year because they had been aiming to get a lot of hay and silage.

 With that achieved, farmers this year had been looking to get more permanent pastures in their paddocks, Mr Smith said.