4627.0 - Land Management and Farming in Australia, 2013-14 Quality Declaration 
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This document was added or updated on 13/10/2015.

PASTURE MANAGEMENT
In 2013-14

NATIONAL AND STATE/TERRITORY

    • Of the agricultural businesses with pasture cover at 30 June 2014, the most common type of pasture reported was mixed annual and perennial varieties with an estimated 110.8 million hectares.
    • During 2013-14 there were 23,700 businesses which actively managed a total of 16.4 million hectares of perennial pasture.
    • In all states and territories, grazing was the most common practice undertaken to maintain, renew, renovate or re-sow perennial pasture with 12.5 million hectares (or 76.4%) of all perennial pastures being managed using this practice.
    • After grazing, the next most common management practices for managing perennial pastures were herbicide spraying (1 million hectares) and top sowing (548,000 hectares).

Graph Image for Pasture Management

Footnote(s): (a) Includes ACT (b) Zero values may represent data that is not available for publication due to confidentiality restrictions

Source(s): Land Management and Farming in Australia, 2013-14

AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT (AAE) REGIONS
    • Arid AAE (AAE 18) reported the largest area of mixed annual and perennial pastures with 54.4 million hectares. Temperate Coast West (AAE 17) reported the smallest area with 191,000 hectares.
    • By area of land, grazing was the most common perennial pasture management practice across all AAE regions.

Percent of agricultural businesses undertaking perennial pasture management, 2013-14
Image: Map of agricultural businesses undertaking perennial pasture management, 2013-14