7123.2.55.001 - Agricultural State Profile, Victoria, 2002-03

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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

1997(b)	2,627	1,784	22,325	485
2001	2,435	1,971	22,272	557
2002	2,463	1,949	21,350	673
2003	2,491	1,896	20,388	555

(a) Excluding house cows.
(b) At 31 March.
Source: Agriculture, Australia (cat. no. 7113.0) and Agricultural Commodities, Australia (cat. no. 7121.0).

This section contains the following subsection :
Meat cattle
Milk cattle
Sheep and lambs
Pigs