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At 30 June 2003 there were almost 133,000 establishments undertaking agricultural activity with an annual value of agricultural operations of $5,000 or more. For the majority of these establishments (131,609) their primary activity was agriculture. While the remainder were undertaking some form of agricultural activity, their main activity was not in agriculture. The majority of agricultural establishments were engaged in either beef cattle farming (36,208), grain growing (11,960), mixed grain/sheep/beef farming (17,104), sheep farming (13,250) or dairy cattle farming (11,003) (table 14.4).

14.4 ESTABLISHMENTS UNDERTAKING AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY - 30 June 2003
			NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.
Agriculture
	Horticulture and fruit growing
		Plant nurseries	773	309	530	123	168	45	21	5	1,974
		Cut flower and flower seed growing	^241	^190	162	^65	^130	^39	6	-	833
		Vegetable growing	720	905	1,379	422	468	490	7		4,391
		Grape growing	1,157	2,111	^160	2,235	^588	^118	5	4	6,377
		Apple and pear growing	^170	^254	*49	*113	^161	143	-	2	891
		Stone fruit growing	426	355	*105	^217	^165	^42	-	-	1,309
		Kiwi fruit growing	*33	**	-	-	**	-	-	-	*48
		Fruit growing n.e.c.	1,984	^470	1,939	530	319	^33	115	-	5,390
	Grain, sheep and beef cattle farming
		Grain growing	2,598	2,639	1,446	3,277	1,970	*29	2	-	11,960
		Grain-sheep/beef cattle farming	6,588	3,200	1,278	2,462	3,536	*40	-	1	17,104
		Sheep-beef cattle farming	4,815	2,821	811	859	^478	290	-	23	10,097
		Sheep farming	5,461	3,805	422	1,544	1,342	646	-	30	13,250
		Beef cattle farming	11,753	7,923	11,878	1,241	2,003	1,183	206	21	36,208
	Dairy cattle farming		1,602	6,615	1,258	591	360	575	1	1	11,003
	Poultry farming
		Poultry farming (meat)	312	164	117	63	64	^14	1	-	735
		Poultry farming (eggs)	^141	*124	^74	^32	^62	^19	6	1	^457
	Other livestock farming
		Pig farming	300	^188	291	^113	^92	^22	2	-	1,009
		Livestock farming n.e.c.(a)	^522	^427	*407	*102	^135	^37	4	3	^1,637
	Other crop growing
		Sugar cane growing	463	-	4,294	-	5	-	-	-	4,762
		Cotton growing	^295	-	^225	-	-	-	-	-	520
		Crop and plant growing n.e.c.	^227	^449	^675	^120	*58	112	12	-	1,655
	Total agriculture industries		40,577	32,961	27,502	14,108	12,107	3,875	388	91	131,609
Other industries			^499	^265	^185	*153	^163	*96	10	3	1,374
Total			41,077	33,225	27,687	14,261	12,270	3,971	398	94	132,983
(a) Details relating to horse farming and deer farming are included in livestock farming n.e.c. and therefore estimates are not comparable with previous years. Source: Agricultural Commodities, Australia, 2002-03 (7121.0).