While the current heavy rainfall has caused grief to some Central West farmers on the cusp of harvesting, it's been a very different story for Orange fruit producers.
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With cherries, apples and stone-fruits still some weeks of ripening, torrential rain couldn't have come at a better time.
At the same time last year, the same orchards which are currently dripping with moisturiser, were battling drought.
Cherry and apple producer Peter West was among the local growers to welcome the spring downpour that has been drenching the Orange region for days now.
With his cherries still green on their orchard branches, they are still a good five weeks off being ready for picking. But even in their infancy, the injection of moisture they've just had would very likely help how sweet the end product proved.
"The rain did a lot of good," Mr West said. "They're starting their growth cycle now."
It was a similar story for his apples, which always need rain, however as the weeks go on the same amount of rainfall could result in cherries splitting.
"Everything is good at the moment but can change from day to day," Mr West added.
Down the road at Thornbrook Orchard, his neighbour and fellow producer Paula Charnock was similarly delighted with the rain after the harsh growing season of 2019.
Although it's not all smooth sailing.
With the wet comes pests and diseases, plus with thunderstorms currently forecast, hail was a constant concern.
"At this stage everything's ok but we're putting our hail nets on our apples as storms are a concern," Ms Charnock said.
"Obviously with lots of storms about the sooner we can get stuff covered, the sooner we'll feel a lot better.
"With thunderstorms you never know (if hail is a possibility) but it only needs to hail for 30 seconds and you can lose a significant amount of your crop."
In addition to cherries and apples, Thornbrook Orchard also grows peaches, nectarines and other stone fruits which were "looking amazing" after the big rainfall.
"They've grown quite significantly and they're looking really good," Ms Charnock added.
"(Because of the rain) they'll get to a better size. I think some of our cherries are already the same size they ended up as last year because it was so dry last year and we didn't have any water to irrigate them.
"So all the fruit will get to a nice size," the fruit grower added.
"Going forward, the only concern is if the weather stays like this, there'll be an increased chance that we'll lose some cherries through splitting but that's a little bit away yet."
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