Latest Publications

This March Water Market Outlook provides ABARES initial outlook for water allocation prices in the southern Murray-Darling Basin for 2020-21 for indicative climate scenarios (extreme dry, dry, average and wet).

This report supports the Independent Assessment of Social and Economic Conditions in the Basin, presenting forward looking scenarios for the southern Murray-Darling Basin water market.

This forecast contains projections of the value of Australian fisheries and aquaculture production and exports to 2024–25. Coronavirus is expected to have a significant short-term seafood export impact.

This Insights briefing describes the current state of Australian agriculture, with the aim of providing an accessible overview of the industry, key issues and descriptive statistics.

This report examines changes over time in average farm incomes among broadacre and dairy farms in Australia, based on recent ABARES farm surveys.

This report provides an annual update to ABARES productivity estimates for Australia’s broadacre and dairy industries, through to 2018–19.

This case study on Australian stone fruit illustrates the case of a commodity that was able to respond to the market access opportunity swiftly.

The value of Australian agricultural production is forecast to remain high despite bushfires and prolonged drought, with overseas demand balancing drought-related falls in farm output and incomes.

This report provides an annual update to ABARES farm performance by size statistics, showing industry level farm performance is increasingly driven by the performance of the largest farms.

This paper reports on the results of an update to the way ABARES calculates the farmers' terms of trade indicators, including the price indexes for farm outputs and inputs to production.