It's been a great year for beef farmers, returns for lambs have been good too, and with the lift in dairy payouts, farmers are a lot more confident, a local accountant says.
Bill Taylor, an affiliate at MCI and Associates, said with strong returns many farmers were putting money back into deferred maintenance.
"We are a rural service town and we rise and fall with how farmers are going," he said.
However, it was the worst wool season for 50 years, brokers have said.
In the past 12 months prices for crossbreed fleeces have tumbled from $4 per kilogram to $2, with up to a third of the season's production - 200,000-300,000 bales - unsold.