HOW MUCH ARE AUSTRALIA'S CROPS AND LIVESTOCK WORTH?
Find out in the new ABS publication that was released on 31 May 2013,
Value of Agricultural Commodities Produced, Australia (cat. no. 7503.0)
What does it contain?
- final estimates of gross and local values of production of major agricultural commodities for the year ended 30 June 2012
Specifically........
- the value of crop production
- the value of livestock disposals (domestic slaughtering and exports of live animals)
- the value of livestock products (including wool, eggs and whole milk)
What geographic areas does it cover?
- all states, territories and Australia
- data at sub-state geographies such as Natural Resource Management (NRM) regions and Statistical Area 4 (SA4) of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) will be released later in 2013
How was the data collected?
- most crop data have been collected as part of the 2011-12 Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS)
- remaining commodity data (livestock disposals and livestock products, excluding eggs) came from other ABS collections and other non-ABS sources
Where to go for data: