4610.0.55.008 - Gross Value of Irrigated Agricultural Production, 2010-11 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 13/12/2012   
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APPENDIX 1 - DESCRIPTION OF COMMODITY GROUPS

This appendix provides a description of the specific agricultural commodities that are included in each commodity group, as collected on the ABS Agricultural Resource Management Survey 2009–10 (note that the specific data items collected on the Agricultural Census/surveys vary slightly from year-to-year).


PASTURE FOR SEED

HAY

This commodity group includes:

        • Pastures for hay
        • Cereals cut for hay

CEREALS FOR GRAIN AND SEED

This commodity group includes:

        • Wheat for grain
        • Oats for grain
        • Barley for grain
        • Sorghum for grain
        • Maize for grain
        • Triticale for grain
        • All other cereals for grain or seed
Important note: rice is not included in this commodity group.

COTTON
        • cotton lint

RICE

SUGAR CANE
        • sugar cane for crushing

OTHER BROADACRE CROPS

This commodity groups includes the following:
        • Lupins for grain or seed
        • Chickpeas
        • Canola
        • Coriander
        • Fennel
        • Field beans - Faba beans (including tick, horse, mung and other field beans)
        • Field peas for grain
        • Hops
        • Lavender
        • Lentils
        • Oil poppies
        • Peanuts (in shell)
        • Safflower
        • Sesame
        • Soybeans
        • Sunflower
        • Tobacco
        • Vetches for seed
        • Sugar cane - cut for plants during 2010 season
        • All other crops (excluding vegetables)

FRUIT (includes fruit trees, nut trees, plantation and berry fruits; excludes grapevines)

This commodity group includes:
        • Oranges (navel, valencia and other)
        • Grapefruit
        • Lemons
        • Limes
        • Mandarins
        • All other citrus fruit
        • Apples
        • Pears (including Nashi)
        • All other pome fruit
        • Apricots
        • Cherries
        • Nectarines
        • Olives
        • Peaches (processing & fresh market)
        • Plums
        • Prunes
        • All other stone fruit
        • Avocados
        • Carambola
        • Custard apples
        • Dates
        • Guava
        • Jackfruit
        • Lychees
        • Mangoes
        • Rambutan
        • All other orchard fruit
        • Almonds (kernal weight)
        • Cashews
        • Macadamias
        • Pecans
        • Pistachios
        • Walnuts
        • All other nuts
        • Blackcurrants
        • Blueberries
        • Raspberries
        • Strawberries
        • Other berries
        • Bananas
        • Kiwifruit
        • Passionfruit
        • Papaws/papaya
        • Pineapple
        • All other fruit

GRAPES

This commodity group includes:
        • Grapes for wine
        • Grapes for drying
        • Table grapes

VEGETABLES

This commodity group includes:
        • Asparagus
        • Beans, french and runner - processing and fresh market)
        • Broccoli
        • Capsicums (excluding chillies)
        • Carrots
        • Cauliflowers
        • Herbs
        • Lettuces
        • Melons
        • Mushrooms
        • Onions
        • Peas, green - processing (shelled weight) and fresh market (pod weight)
        • Potatoes - processing and fresh market
        • Pumpkins (including butternut)
        • Sweet corn
        • Tomatoes - processing & fresh market
        • Potatoes for seed
        • All other vegetables for seed
        • All other vegetables
        • Vegetables for sale for human consumption

NURSERY PRODUCTION


This commodity group includes the following:
        • Cultivated turf
        • Nurseries
        • Cut flowers

DAIRY PRODUCTION (excludes dairy cattle intended for beef production)

This commodity group includes the following:
        • Cows in milk and dry
        • Total Dairy cattle

PRODUCTION FROM MEAT CATTLE (includes dairy cattle intended for beef production)

This commodity group includes the following:
        • cows and heifers 1 year and over
        • Total meat cattle

PRODUCTION FROM SHEEP AND OTHER LIVESTOCK

This commodity group includes the following:
        • Lambs, under 1 year (include only marked lambs)
        • Pure merino ewes
        • All other breeds (including dual purpose, Dohnes and SAMMs)
        • Total Sheep
        • Total lambs marked
        • Domesticated buffaloes
        • Goats (excluding feral goats)
        • Breeding sows (from first mating)
        • Total Pigs
        • Layers (including hens in moult)
        • Meat chickens
        • Hen egg production for human consumption between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2011
        • All other livestock