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          • Estimating the value of Australian biosecurity arrangements for equine influenza since the 2007 outbreak
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            • Short-term forecasts of selected wood product sales volume: Method and assumptions
            • Upscaling the Australian softwood sawmill industry
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        • The National Priority List of Exotic Environmental Pests, Weeds and Diseases dataset
        • The state of weeds data collection in Australia
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        • Recreational boat operators’ self-management of biofouling in Australia
        • Social aspects of weed management
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        • A model of water trade and irrigation activity in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
        • Future scenarios for the southern Murray-Darling Basin: Report to the Independent Assessment of Social and Economic Conditions in the Basin
        • Measuring water market prices
        • Murray-Darling Basin water markets: trends and drivers 2002-03 to 2018-19
        • Murray-Darling-Basin water market dataset
        • Trends in water entitlement holdings and trade: Analysis of ABARES survey data
        • Water Market Outlook
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        • Changes to reporting of marketing year data
        • Farm share and price spread
        • Farmers' terms of trade: Update to farm costs and prices paid
        • Forecasting national grain stocks in times of drought
        • Seasonal climate scenarios for medium-term forecasts
        • Summary of ABARES agricultural forecasting
        • The future of public sector forecasting in Australian agriculture
      • Working papers
        • A micro-simulation model of irrigation farms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
        • A model of spatial and inter-temporal water trade in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
        • Analytical distributions and statistics for managing import pathway risk using the continuous sampling plan CSP-1
        • Analytical distributions and statistics for managing import pathway risk using the continuous sampling plans CSP-2 and CSP-3
        • Defining drought from the perspective of Australian farmers
        • Discount rates and risk in economic analysis
        • Non-tariff measures: A methodology
        • Simulating the effects of climate change on the profitability of Australian farms
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        • Analysis of Australia’s food security and the COVID-19 pandemic
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        • Analysis of opportunities in India
        • Analysis of 2018 drought
        • Australia’s place in global agriculture and food value chains
        • Climate change impacts and adaptation on Australian farms
        • Economic effects of water recovery in the Murray–Darling Basin
        • Effects of bushfires and COVID-19 on the forestry and wood processing sectors
        • Emissions, agricultural support and food security
        • Food security - The impact of export restrictions
        • Food security: the role of international trade and support
        • Global responses to climate change
        • Indonesia’s food consumption and trade: will domestic reform keep up with demand?
        • Reshaping agricultural support to build a competitive agricultural sector
        • Snapshot of Australian Agriculture 2023
        • Snapshot of Australia’s Agricultural Workforce
        • Snapshot of Australia’s commercial fisheries and aquaculture
        • Snapshot of Australia’s forest industry
        • Snapshot of Australian water markets
        • Stocktake of Fire in Australia’s forests, 2011 to 2016
        • Stocktake of Free trade, competitiveness and a global world: How trade agreements are shaping agriculture
        • Stocktake of Megatrends shaping Australian agriculture (2021 update)
        • The effects of drought and climate variability on Australian farms
        • The future of Chinese agricultural policy
        • United States and Australian agriculture—a comparison
        • Value creation in Australia through agricultural exports
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