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Gross value of agricultural production is forecast to rise by $6 billion to $88.4 billion in 2024–25 ($94.3 billion including fisheries and forestry), the second highest result on record. Livestock and livestock product values also to rise as strong demand and prices increase turn-off.

Australian winter crop production is forecast to increase by 16% to 55.1 million tonnes in 2024–‍25, the fifth highest on record. Strong production across Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland is more than offsetting reduced winter crop yields in South Australia and Victoria.

This report presents the underlying measurement framework used for the ABARES Farmland Price Indicator and is based on the working paper by Boult et al. (2023). It outlines the use of administrative data supplied by CoreLogic in a stratification model to estimate average Australian farmland prices.

These spatial datasets provide information on the prime use of the Australian landscape. They have been provided to the Australian Bureau of Statistics as an input to the National Land Account and to inform the development of the first National Ecosystem Account, as part of the national approach to environmental-economic accounting.

This report presents the latest estimates of farm labour use and workforce characteristics derived from the ABARES survey of horticulture farms in 2022–23.

This issue includes new 2023-24 data and analysis on Australia’s forestry imports and exports.

Information on trends in the use of debt financing provides context for understanding longer term changes in farm financial performance and the drivers of future productivity growth. This report includes analysis of recent developments in agricultural lending using data provided by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Regional Investment Corporation and ABARES farm surveys.

The implementation review assesses the extent to which the requirements of the 2018 Commonwealth Fisheries Harvest Strategy Policy and Bycatch Policy have been met.

This report uses an economic framework to examine the role of government in tracking Australia’s agricultural exports from ‘paddock-to-plate’.

ABARES has conducted several previous studies into the value of agricultural R&D investment and the returns this has generated. This report builds on these analyses and uses our latest approach for measuring Australian agricultural R&D.