Value of Australia’s farm production forecast to be third highest on record in 2024–25 at almost $84 billion, an increase on 2023–24 with improved seasonal conditions and higher livestock prices. Average cash incomes for broadacre farms also forecast to increase.
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4 Jun 2024
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20 May 2024
This report supports the review of the Southern Squid Jig Fishery (SSJF) harvest strategy and provides a description of the available data and recommendations for future data collection that would enable more fulsome implementation of the harvest strategy through more robust catch per unit effort (CPUE) and depletion analyses.
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30 Apr 2024
This paper is the first to propose and apply a method for the estimation of Australian vegetable productivity and provides a foundation for future efforts to estimate productivity for Australian horticulture.
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23 Apr 2024
The Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) project was established in April 2022 by the Department. This report details progress of the first stage of the DEWS project to the end of June 2023, including the development of an initial protype.
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16 Apr 2024
This report outlines the process of climate matching using the Climatch V2.0 and the results of the potential distribution modelling for the Polyphagous shot-hole borer in Australia.
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14 Mar 2024
This product provides important and timely insights into broadacre farmland prices. The updated dashboard shows farmland in Australia has generally experienced strong growth over the period of observation, continuing to accelerate in recent years.
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6 Mar 2024
The Commonwealth Government manages billions of dollars’ worth of water entitlements in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) with the aim of protecting and restoring water-dependent ecosystems. Managing this water efficiently is critical for maximising the health of ecosystems across the MDB for current and future generations.
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6 Mar 2024
Higher production volumes, especially from aquaculture, are forecast to boost the nominal value of Australian fisheries and aquaculture production by 0.5% to $3.56 billion in 2023−24.
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5 Mar 2024
This Insights report covers 8 key aspects of Australian agriculture: its role in the broader economy, trends in production, exports, biosecurity, agricultural employment, industry structure and productivity, climate change impacts and risk management, sustainability and trade.
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5 Mar 2024
National winter crop production to fall from record highs to 46.7 million tonnes in 2023–24, slightly above the 10-year average. Summer crop production in 2023–24 forecast to remain above average at 4.3 million tonnes.