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7123.2.55.001 - Agricultural State Profile, Victoria, 2006-07  
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Victorian agriculture supports a broad range of livestock-based production. The sheep industry produces fine wool, sheep for live export and meat for foreign and domestic markets. The dairy cattle industry is the largest of any state and produces milk and dairy products for domestic and overseas consumption.

LIVESTOCK NUMBERS, Victoria, at 30 June
Meat
cattle
'000
Milk
cattle(a)
'000
Sheep &
lambs
'000
Pigs
'000
2003
2 491
1 896
20 388
555
2004
2 390
1 890
19 978
^547
2005
2 540
1 969
20 575
524
2006(b)
2 646
1 758
17 908
668
2007(b)
2 575
1 668
17 174
463
^ estimate has a relative standard error of 10% to less than 25% and should be used with caution
(a) Excluding house cows.
(b) The ABS has moved to a new frame from the 2005-06 Agricultural Census onwards. This means that data are not directly comparable with historical time series. For more information, please see the technical notes at the back of the 2005-06 edition of the source publication.
Source: Agricultural Commodities, Australia (cat. no. 7121.0).


This section contains the following subsection :
      Meat Cattle
      Milk Cattle
      Sheep and Lambs
      Pigs

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