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This statistical release provides new estimates of farmland price by selected farm type. There is currently very little known about such price trends by land use type (e.g. hobby farmland, dairy farmland), and this publication provides robust estimates to better understand these significant land markets.

This issue includes new 2022–23 data for key domestic indicators of forestry sector activity such as the value and volume of logs harvested, the performance of the wood product manufacturing sector and changes in Australia’s commercial plantation estate.

Farm incomes for livestock farms are estimated to have fallen in 2023–24 because of lower prices for beef cattle, sheep, lambs and wool. However, increased turnoff of cattle and sheep is expected to have moderated this decrease.

Farm incomes for cropping farms are estimated to have fallen in 2023–24 because of lower grain prices and reductions in winter crop production in some areas.

This product contains the latest Total Factor Productivity (TFP) estimates for Australian broadacre and dairy farms. These estimates are produced using ABARES farm survey data from 1977–78 to 2022–23. The data is presented by industry, state and region.

This report, commissioned by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, aims to fill specific data gaps on food loss and waste in primary production in the horticulture industry.

ABARES uses the Species Range Mapping modelling method to generate a map showing maximum potential range of carpet sea squirt based on its known temperature tolerances.

This report builds on our 2012 report (Revised Indicators of community vulnerability and adaptive capacity across the Murray-Darling Basin) to provide a contemporary understanding of the relative vulnerability of communities in the Murray-Darling Basin to changes in access to water for irrigation, and the ability of communities to respond or adapt to changes.

ABARES has been asked by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) to examine the impacts on irrigated agriculture of using buybacks to meet outstanding recovery under the 450 GL (gigalitre) target for enhanced environmental outcomes.

National winter crop production forecast to be above average in 2024–25 at 51.3 million tonnes, with increases in area planted and yields of cereals and pulses. Summer crop production in 2023–24 forecast to have remained above average at 4.6 million tonnes, but below previous year’s high.