Fires sparked by dry lightning and harvest activity in Victoria's north-west destroyed hundreds' of hectares worth of crops on Tuesday.
CFA members say resources were stretched and praised the swift assistance of farmers and private units.
Farmers are being urged to take care as they continue to harvest in challenging conditions.
Seven fires that broke out in north-west Victoria on Tuesday destroyed about 300 hectares' worth of crops, the Country Fire Authority (CFA) says.
The first fire was ignited by lightning at Walpeup, south of Mildura, on Tuesday morning, destroying 180 hectares' worth of lentils.
The CFA responded to another six fires around Nandaly and Chinkapook in the afternoon and evening.
Grain grower Codey Elliott lost more than 100 hectares of his barley crop when lightning struck on his property at Nandaly.
"I was harvesting a paddock about 10 kilometres away from the house paddock where the fire started when it happened," he said.
"I saw a few nasty strikes of lightning, saw the smoke, and by the time we got there it was pretty well alight."
He said the lightning struck in a paddock that had already been harvested before jumping the Calder Highway and burning through what would have been a near-record barley yield.
