7106.0 - Australian Farming in Brief, 2009  
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 14/08/2009   
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Agricultural businesses AGRICULTURAL BUSINESSES

Number of Businesses with Agricultural Activity, by Industry(a)
2008

Nursery Production (undercover plus outdoors)(b)
804
Turf Growing
^366
Floriculture Production (undercover plus outdoors)(b)
775
Mushroom Growing
^120
Vegetable Growing (undercover plus outdoors)(b)
4 429
Grape Growing
6 062
Kiwifruit Growing
*65
Berry Fruit Growing
^390
Apple and Pear Growing
896
Stone Fruit Growing
981
Citrus Fruit Growing
1 230
Olive Growing
^259
Other Fruit and Tree Nut Growing
3 837
Sheep Farming (specialised)
11 148
Beef Cattle Farming plus Beef Cattle Feedlots (specialised)
41 640
Sheep-Beef Cattle Farming
7 226
Grain-Sheep or Grain-Beef Cattle Farming
13 059
Rice Growing
*46
Other Grain Growing
13 723
Sugar Cane Growing
3 758
Cotton Growing
294
Other Crop Growing n.e.c.
^836
Dairy Cattle Farming
8 792
Poultry Farming (meat)
862
Poultry Farming (eggs)
^417
Deer Farming
*138
Horse Farming
1 697
Pig Farming
642
Beekeeping
^488
Other Livestock Farming n.e.c.
^616
Total Agricultural Industries
125 594
All Other Industries
15 110
Total All Industries
140 704

n.e.c. not elsewhere classified
^ relative standard error (RSE) between 10% and 25%
* RSE between 25% and 50%
(a) Count of agricultural businesses with an Estimated Value of Agricultural Operations (EVAO) of $5,000 or more.
(b) Classes have been merged where data were not collected in the Agricultural Resource Management Survey.

Source:
Agricultural Commodities, Australia (cat. no. 7121.0)