'Not biblical yet': farmers await floods

Grain grower Tom Green in his rain-damaged wheat crop southwest of Forbes in NSW. (Stuart Walmsley/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Rows of gnarled gum trees line farmer Tom Green's wheat and canola crops outside Forbes, a towering reminder of devastating floods in 1990.

"The forest of trees just sprung up out of the floods," Mr Green tells AAP, standing in his paddock 16 kilometres west of the NSW town.