DAMS are looking healthier, rivers have started to flow and dairy farmers are smiling in the NSW Bega Valley following weekend rain.

Steady rain fell across the district over the weekend, following good falls a week earlier.

Some farmers recorded up to 70mm on the weekend and a further 140mm on Monday.

Cobargo dairy farmer John Jessop, whose dam was just a mere puddle when it was featured on the back back page of The Weekly Times last October, said the water was now only 91cm from the top of the 100-megalitre dam.

Describing Monday's rain as "just about ridiculous", he said his rainfall total for the past fortnight was nearing 500mm.

Happy with with the recent downpour, Mr Jessop said he hoped to "never" run out of water again, as he had recently had to resort to using town water to keep his dairy operation running.

"You can't make money out of dust, but you can make money out of mud," he said.

Other farmers who stood on the side of dry-cracked dams in October when The Weekly Times visited the drought-ravaged region were Corunna farmers Geoff, Elizabeth and Graham Hopkins.

On Monday they had recorded up to 785mm for the month and were now bracing themselves for a post-flood clean-up.

Mr Hopkins said the rain had washed his fences away and a wooden bridge at their property entrance was 50cm under water. "We would have filled the South Australian lakes with what we got," he joked.

From November last year until early this month the Hopkins had carted all the water for their dairy and some for stock use.

Bega-based NSW Department of Industry and Investment agronomist, Hayden Kingston, said the district received 30-40mm on Friday and Saturday, but by mid-afternoon Sunday the rain was heavier.

He said 50mm was recorded on Sunday. By 11am on Monday another 30mm had fallen.

Some dairy farmers had already direct-drilled pastures after last weekend's rain.

But Mr Kingston said the rain would most likely not cause too much of a problem for them because of the "well draining" soil.

He said other farmers would be looking to sow pastures once the ground had dried.