Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

The report is a quarterly report with a consistent and regular assessment of crop prospects for major field crops, forcasts of area, yield and production and a summary of seasonal conditions on a state by state basis. Report Locationhttp://www.daff.gov.au/abares/publications_remote_content/recent-20?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkYxNDM ....

This report provides a detailed profile of the financial performance of farm businesses in the grains, livestock and dairy industries in the years 2009-10 to 2011-12. These industries include 68 per cent of farm business units in Australia. The report also includes analysis of changes in farm business debt and farm investment together with analy ....

Wouldn't it be great if everyone had access to a seamless flow of information via the internet. Whether you worked in a metropolitan area or a remote farming region, the software or data needed to keep your business running efficiently could be downloaded quickly and affordably. Although this scenario already exists in some parts of the world, it ....

There is considerable debate about increased foreign ownership of farmland and corporate farming in Australia, and the presumed decline of the ‘family farm’. However, while overseas and corporate farmers have an important role in Australian agriculture, family farming business entities are not about to be replaced by big business. This paper ....

Annual updates of fisheries production and trade data. This resource provides a wealth of publications on regional issues, including specific reports relating to fisheries in regional Australia. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on regional industry. Report Locationhttp://frdc.com.au/knowledge/publications/Pag ....

The Australian fisheries statistics 2012 report contains data on the volume and value of production from state, territory and Commonwealth commercial fisheries (both wild catch and aquiculture). It also includes data on the volume and value of Australian fisheries trade, by destination, source and product. Profiles of Commonwealth and state/terri ....

This issue of the Australian Forest and Wood Products Statistics (AFWPS) includes updated Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) trade data for the March and June quarters of 2013, as well as 2012-13 data for housing and forestry employment. This release includes a summary of the recently released ABARES report titled Illegal logging regulation: t ....

This report provides a summary of the September 2013 editions of the Australian Crop Report and the grains section of Agricultural commodities. The report also includes an update on the productivity of the Australian grains industry. Report Locationhttp://www.daff.gov.au/abares/publications_remote_content/recent-20?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHA ....

Online access to the best publicly available information on soil and land resources in a consistent format across Australia Report Locationhttp://www.asris.csiro.au/index_ie.html ....

Research and Development related to wool. This resource provides a wealth of publications on regional issues, including specific reports relating to agriculture in Regional Australia. As a collection, these publications provide valuable information on regional industry. Report Locationhttp://www.wool.com/en/about-AWI/publications ....

Conservation is a long-term investment, and strong property rights are the principal means by which this investment is secured. This paper seeks to illustrate how insecure property rights lead to unsustainable land management, while more secure property rights allow local users to capture the benefits of conservation-minded sustainable ....

This article examines the impact of job losses from the mining industry, as a result of the end of the mining boom. In particular this article examines the migration of workers away from mining areas to regional centres and cities. This paper presents agriculture as the backbone of the Australian rural economy and highlights the opportunities&nbs ....

Since the beginning of the mining boom Australia's rural sector has lost $43.5 billion in export income. This includes $14.9 billion in 2010-11 alone. These losses have occurred because the mining boom has forced the Australian dollar to historic highs. The damage the mining boom is doing to other sectors has created what has been dubbed the 'tw ....

New quantitative evidence presented in this report demonstrates that total public agricultural R&D spending in Asia–Pacific increased by 50 percent, from $8.2 billion in 1996 to $12.3 billion in 2008 (in 2005 PPP prices). Most of this growth was driven by the region’s low- and middle-income countries, whereas growth in the region’s high-inc ....