Latest Publications

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.

This report identifies the main changes in water markets in the Murray-Darling Basin over the past 15 to 20 years and explains the main factors driving these changes.

The Australian crop report – February 2020 edition says production prospects for summer crops in Queensland and northern New South Wales remain well below average.

This conference paper describes the challenges of quantifying non-tariff measures as ‘ad valorem’ tariff equivalents at the commodity level.

This report estimates the benefits to industry from grants to rural research and development corporations to improve farmers’ access to minor use chemicals for pest control.

Our latest Insights report provides analysis on the effects of climate variability on Australian farms. It examines both short-term climate risks such as drought and longer-term shifts in climate conditions.

The Agricultural commodity statistics report provides a set of comprehensive statistical tables on Australian and world prices, production, consumption, stocks and trade for 19 rural commodities.

The Measuring Australian broadacre farmland value: Phase 1 - Statistical infrastructure report contains preliminary findings on the construction of hedonic models to estimate values of Australian farmland.

The effects of the continuing drought are becoming more pronounced with falling production and high input costs presenting serious challenges, according to the latest Agricultural Commodities report.