"No one can control the weather. We just need to keep our chins up and be ready when things have dried up," she said.
Clearing through the backlog of clients could be a stressful bottleneck but most clients were understanding, she said.
After more than 25 years working as a wool rep for PGG Wrightson, Kevin Waldron said July had been the worst month he had seen for contractors trying to get through crossbred shearing.
"It's been pretty dismal, but it's not as bad as some might think. Things are only a couple of weeks behind.
"It was a pretty good run through June and wool stores are only just starting to look a bit empty now. We've got a bit of time to catch up before the halfbreds start."
Lee Stream sheep and beef farmer Gary Nichol had a "day or so" of shearing to get through when Southern Rural Life spoke to him early last week.
With 3300 ewes and 1000 hoggets, shearing usually took four to five days in their four-stand woolshed.
This year, Nichol was into the third week of trying to get the mobs shorn during the windows of dry weather. He still had the hoggets to go.
"I have them in the covered yards at the moment, but they are still getting wet so I'm not too sure what's going to happen, we might have to let them out yet and wait it out."
Nichol was feeding baleage to his woollies and the shorn mobs were going straight out of the woolshed and on to crop.
"I have been trying to keep the hoggets off the mud so they are clean for shearing, but that's easier said than done," he said.
It had been a relentless few weeks for Nichol, but he was pragmatic about the situation.
"It is what it is. We will get out the other side eventually. The moisture is good for things too."
