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.
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6 Nov 2024
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31 Oct 2024
These datasets provide the spatial representation of the legal regime in which land is owned, leased, reserved or unallocated to a defined purpose in Australia. They have been provided to the Australian Bureau of Statistics as an input to the National Land Account as part of the national approach to environmental-economic accounting.
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28 Oct 2024
The Australia’s State of the Forests Report: Synthesis 2023 presents a summary of the latest information describing the many environmental, social and economic values of Australia’s forests and includes 16 updated indicators of sustainable forest management.
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22 Oct 2024
This report presents the results of the 2021-22 wood processing survey and shows the number of sawmills operating in Australia has continued its long-term decline. Despite this, wood input volumes have been relatively steady over the last decade. The report also provides data on timber output volumes and prices, costs, employment, and issues facing the sector.
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17 Oct 2024
The average farm cash income for dairy farms in 2022–23 was estimated to have been $461,000 per farm - 34% higher than the previous year, and a record high in historical terms.
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16 Oct 2024
ABARES has today published the 29th edition of the Fishery status reports - an independent evaluation of the biological and economic status of fish stocks managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government. Of the 102 stocks assessed in 2023, there were 3 stock status changes.
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26 Sep 2024
This report and dashboard present the results of ABARES’ most recent economic survey of the Northern Prawn Fishery. It contains information on indicators such as net economic returns, fisher productivity and terms of trade.
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26 Sep 2024
This report and dashboard present the results of ABARES’ most recent economic survey of the Commonwealth Trawl Sector. It contains information on indicators such as net economic returns, fisher productivity and terms of trade.
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24 Sep 2024
The Agricultural commodity statistics 2023 report provides comprehensive statistical tables on Australian and world prices, production, consumption, stocks and trade for rural commodities, and historical statistics on macroeconomic indicators.
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10 Sep 2024
The Australian Gridded Farm Data are a set of national scale maps containing simulated data on historical broadacre farm business outcomes including farm profitability on an 0.05-degree (approximately 5 km) grid.