WHILE administrators McGrath Nicol and the board of the Cubbie Group search for solutions to the group's financial problems in the company offices, it is still business as usual for farming personnel out in the vast irrigation fields of the 93,000 hectare operation.

About 1100 hectares of Cubbie Station's 20,000 hectares of irrigable farming land at Dirranbandi is planted to cotton, and contractors such as Bruce Connolly are going about their daily business as normal.

Mr Connolly is one of six farming contractors based at Cubbie.

He has two tractors and associated implements based permanently at the station, which provides enough year-round work to keep him focused on the station full-time.

His current business is heavily dependent on the station but he is confident that the farming operations will remain intact following the administration process.

"We had a meeting Tuesday morning with Paul Brimblecombe (Cubbie co-managing director) and representatives from McGrath Nicol, and they were very open and honest about the situation.

"They said it will be business as usual from our perspectives.

"They told us quite happily that Cubbie board of directors and McGrath Nicol will be working to achieve a beneficial outcome for all parties, meaning the bank and the Cubbie owners and the contractors and the staff that work there and all their families and so forth.

"I'm happy what we were told at the meeting was the truth of the matter, and I'm confident there will continue to be a Cubbie Station, and it will be continue to farm irrigated and dryland crops."

Mr Connolly said he was not owed any money from Cubbie Group and was not aware of any other contractors who were.

He conceded that if the operation was to cease to exist in its current form it would force some contractors to leave the district.

"I have diversified a little bit, but probably I would certainly have to look at other options.

"If Cubbie was shut down there are too many of us to all look here locally, we would have to source work with different districts probably."

Mr Connolly said he was very pleased with the level of communication that had been provided by the board of Cubbie and the administrators.

"I appreciate the fact Cubbie has been open and honest about it and we haven't been left in the dark.

"They have kept us aware of the process. When they started this tendering process back in August they called a meeting and they gave us the information then and they have not had anything to hide."