Farmers will be working around the clock to harvest their grain before any change in the weather.

Despite all the frenetic activity the growers have done pretty much all they can and the only thing left to do is pray.

Even those who aren’t religious find themselves muttering a prayer or two because as Agriland’s chief agronomist, Jim Bible puts it, the harvest is in “the hands of the Gods now’’.

“We’re just about to start kicking into full swing now, we’ve done the barley and the canola,” Mr Bible said.

“It’s definitely the business end of the season, a short and sharp six weeks.”

It is also big business at the other end.

The Chicago Board of Trade has wheat at about $180 per tonne down from the highs of more than $500 a tonne last year.

In 2008 Australia exported some $4bn worth of wheat, or more than eight million tonnes, overseas. Most of it goes towards feeding millions. Indonesia - a country where 45 million people live in poverty - bought most of it followed by Japan.

Forecasts have wheat exports earning almost $6bn for the Australian economy in 2009/2010, making it the biggest rural commodity export.

The mass mobilisation of harvesting and transport equipment to make it all happen can be a logistical nightmare.

Agrigland has four headers going which will strip their way through 4000 hectares of wheat in just under a month.

“It’s very hectic with the headers and organising the trucks,” he said.

“It’s good to have it all in the bin.”

It is also a nervous time for growers as they deliberate over the quality of their grain.

Mr Bible said it would be about a week before he would know the quality of the wheat but he said other towns had reported a lower protein content which affected the quality.

“It started with great rain and so huge potential,” he said.

“(But there was) a long time in the middle when it didn’t rain...I think it will be fair to average.”

“We can’t do anything more to affect the quality... (it is) in the hands of the Gods now...any rain we get now would be a disaster.”