KEY FIGURES
CROP STUBBLE and/or TRASH MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, Australia, year ended 30 June 2016
|
 | 2015-16 | Movement since |
| | 2014-15 (a) |
| '000 ha | % |
|
| | |
| Area of crop residue managed | | |
| Grazed off | 4 226 | -10.4% |
| Incorporated into the soil | 1 890 | 8.9% |
| Removal by cool-moderate burn | 1 573 | -19.3% |
| Removal by hot burn | 906 | -23.5% |
| Retained standing | 7 748 | 5.5% |
| Retained on ground | 4 661 | -1.1% |
| Windrowed and left | 198 | np |
| Windrowed and removed | 650 | np |
|
np estimates not published in 2014-15
(a) Percentage movement based on revised 2014-15 estimates using the new scope of $40,000 or greater |
KEY POINTS:
- In 2015-16 an estimated 31,900 agricultural businesses undertook some form of crop stubble and/or trash management practices over an area of 22.3 million hectares of cropping land.
- Crop stubble and/or trash management practices were predominantly carried out on broadacre cereal crops (excl. rice), accounting for 18 million hectares. Pulses accounted for the second largest area (2 million hectares).
- The most common crop stubble and trash management practices were retained standing, undertaken on 7.7 million hectares of crops; retained on ground, undertaken on 4.6 million hectares; and grazed off , undertaken on 4.2 million hectares.
- Western Australia continued to have the largest area on which crop stubble and/or trash management practices were carried out (7.3 million hectares). New South Wales (incl. ACT) had the second largest area, with 6 million hectares.
Crop Stubble and/or Trash Management, Hectares ('000), 2015-16
by Australian Agricultural Environment Regions
CHANGE IN COLLECTION SCOPE
- The scope for the 2015-16 Agricultural Census and Land Management Practices Survey was all agricultural businesses with an Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations (EVAO) of $40,000 or greater. This is a change from previous ABS rural environment and agricultural collections, where a scope of EVAO of $5,000 or greater was used. This change was foreshadowed in February 2016 in Agricultural Census: Nature and Content, 2015-16 (cat. no 7100.1).
- The 2014-15 estimates presented in this publication have been revised to use the new scope of $40,000 or greater.
- For more information about EVAO and the change in scope, refer to the Explanatory Notes within this release.
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