Total Australian agricultural R&D funding in 2024-25 is expected to be $3.0 billion. This is broadly in line with the real level of funding in 2023-24. The public sector remains the largest funder of agricultural R&D, based on updated and revised data.
The Australian Gridded Farm Data (AGFD) are a set of national simulated farm business data produced by ABARES. The AGFD contains maps of simulated data on historical and projected farm business outcomes including profitability on an 0.05-degree (approximately 5 km) grid.
This Insights article outlines Australia’s agricultural policy reform journey and aims to highlight lessons that other developed countries can draw on to undertake their own reforms.
The ABARES Farm Data Portal is a data dashboard that allows users to access ABARES farm performance statistics for the broadacre and dairy industry. This release adds a data download feature to the data tool, which allows users to directly download a data series of their choice.
This data dashboard contains farm performance statistics for farms of different sizes, by industry and region, with data updated to include historical data from 2000-01 to 2022-23 and the latest data for 2023-24.
This edition includes newly published 2022−23 and 2023−24 data on domestic production and trade for Australian commercial wild-catch fishery and aquaculture products, together with previously published historical data.
The Fishery status reports 2025 provides an independent assessment of the biological status of fish stocks and economic status of fisheries managed solely or jointly by the Australian Government in 2024. This is the 30th edition produced by ABARES.
Crop production values expected to decrease in 2025-26, reflecting expected lower crop prices. Winter broadacre crop production forecast to increase by 2% in 2025-26 to 62.0 million tonnes, the third-largest crop on record.
The value of agricultural production forecast to increase by 1% to $94.7 billion in 2025–26. Value of agricultural exports forecast to decrease by 3% to $74.6 billion in 2025-26.
This report includes analysis of recent developments in agricultural lending using data provided by the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Regional Investment Corporation and ABARES farm surveys.
