ABARES Farmland Price Indicator – March 2026
Broadacre farmland prices in Australia have generally experienced strong growth since 1992, accelerating in recent years. Prices have increased in 2025, at a more gradual pace.
Broadacre farmland prices in Australia have generally experienced strong growth since 1992, accelerating in recent years. Prices have increased in 2025, at a more gradual pace.
This report provides a structured way to identify and categorise the wide range of positive and negative social impacts associated with pests and weeds and their management.
The latest agricultural lending statistics provided by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) show a net increase in aggregate lending to the farm sector in 2024–25 of 5% (in real terms) compared with the previous year.
Growers have delivered the second largest winter crop on record, with timely rainfall and mild spring temperatures supporting strong yields – despite below average growing season rainfall in 2025-26 across many cropping regions in southeast Australia.
Australian agriculture is set to reach a record $101.4 billion in gross production value in 2025-26 before easing in 2026–27, with both prices and output expected to soften.
This report examines the potential for labour and seed supply to constrain reforestation efforts under the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) scheme. Using simple ecological and economic models, we assess how increased demand for reforestation inputs affects wages and seed prices under alternative planting scenarios.
This report provides new mathematical modelling techniques to support the design and monitoring of compliance-based biosecurity intervention systems at the Australian border, such as the Compliance-Based Incentive Scheme (CBIS). These systems use a risk-based intervention approach to manage imports while reducing regulatory costs.
This Insights paper describes the current state of Australian agriculture, with the aim of providing an accessible overview of the industry and descriptive statistics.
This report is published in two parts, both containing data up to and including 2024–25. The first part covers Commonwealth fisheries production volume and value. The second part covers trade volume and value statistics for fisheries products.
This report provides 2010–11 to 2023–24 estimates of net economic returns, total factor productivity and terms of trade indexes for the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery using a non-survey approach based on existing administrative and public data.