Flinders shire mayor Jane McNamara has cautioned drought committees in the north west against drawing lines on maps as they prepare to advise the state government on whether drought declarations should remain.
A week ago Agriculture Minister Mark Furner announced that drought still covered 65.2 per cent of Queensland, but said at the same time that local drought committees across northern and western Queensland had delayed their annual meetings until May.
"After the well above average rainfall and flooding in these areas, the LDCs will be able to better assess the conditions and pasture response in May," he said.
Cr McNamara said a full revocation of the Flinders shire was definitely not warranted.
"They've got to keep it as it is - even people who've had reasonable rain are not out of the woods.
"It's still so dry in plenty of places - the cracks in the ground are still there."
She described one-third of her shire as still being deeply in drought, another one-third as soon back in drought, and the final third as doing okay.
"The south east corner is pretty ordinary," she said.
"From Cameron Downs south - both sides of that road are apparently looking worse than ever.
"Only weeds have been growing on the badly droughted areas since it rained."
Cr McNamara said west of the Hughenden-Winton Road, which had had a reasonable season last year, had grown some grass this time around.
However it was patchy and some of the young Mitchell grass didn't get follow-up rain.
"Some people in our shire are restocking while others are looking to destock."
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Another factor in deciding whether to lift a drought declaration would be the eventual impact of grasshoppers, which have eaten down whole swathes of regrown grass in places.
As for a partial declaration, Cr McNamara said she couldn't say no to that, so long as it was done with good data as a basis.
"We can't be unfair about these things," she said.
"The whole shire has been declared category C for disaster assistance so everyone can get $75,000.
"You can't have it both ways."
She cautioned that drawing lines on a map could become like the carcase disposal plan, in which producers eligible for money had to be within an official flood inundation area.
She said the growers with stock affected by exposure only, had not been able to access that payment to bury their animals.