Districts such as Bourke, Brewarrina, Walgett and Coonamble boast ample feed sometimes higher than 60 centimetres.

Isolated locations, including Gunnedah and Moree, also had lush groundcover.

Agistment properties were almost impossible to find before Christmas but there were now plenty of properties in north-west NSW willing to take on stock.

Lifelong Moree local Carolyn Humphreys said her 200-hectare property “South Mungie Bundie” looked “brilliant”.

She had 50 agistment Angus cattle on her property sent from dry southern NSW.

The woman whose family worked land in the area since the late 1800s used the cattle not only for cash flow but for keeping down the “blow-away grass”.

“The country bounces back pretty quickly here,” she said.

* Read this week’s edition of The Land, in newsagents Thursday, January 21, for full coverage about feed, where to find agistment and the latest agistment costs from last year.