All this suggests summer crop growers are gearing up for a potentially profitable season.

Meanwhile, the prospect of a solid summer crop season already has translated into a mood of early optimism that is evident across southern Queensland, also the Central Highlands and Northern NSW.

Hugh Reardon-Smith, senior sales agronomist, Landmark, who looks after country around Clifton, Allora and Pittsworth, noted the recent rain and said it would continue to build up subsoil moisture for the district's summer crop, giving growers "a lot more confidence" for the season ahead.

"It's looking a lot better than for a number of seasons," said.

"But it is a bit cooler, which probably will mean a later start, by a couple of weeks, to summer planting as we wait for soil temperatures to warm up," Mr Reardon-Smith said.

The Landmark agronomist says seed has already been ordered and "people are a lot happier," also hopeful about the future.

Meanwhile, Emerald-based farm management consultant Graham Spackman, says it's still early days for Central Queensland's summer cropping schedule, adding, however, that early spring rain made for a good start, contributing to a "fairly positive" outlook.

"While some dryland cotton will be planted there will be a big area asset aside to irrigated cotton," Mr Spackman said

Considerably further south the Gwdyr Valley Irrigation Association's CEO, Michael Murray, said Copeton Dam in-flows, totalling 80,000/90,000ML since early July, had been trumped by "even better water security" in the Namoi Valley and Border Rivers districts.

"There's a lot of optimism for a very large dryland cotton crop," he said.

"It is getting to the point where there is some very good soil moisture building up and it's all beginning to come together quite nicely," Mr Murray added.