AGRICULTURAL PRICE INDEXES
Indexes of Prices Received and Paid, By Farmers |
|  |
| Prices received by farmers | Prices Paid by farmers | | |
| Period | All crops | Wheat crops | All live-
stock slaught-
erings | Cattle slaught-
ering | All live-
stock prod-
ucts | Wool prod-
ucts | Total | Mater-
ials and serv-
ices | Labour | Over-
heads | Mark-
eting exp-
enses | Capital | Total | Farme-
rs' terms of trade(a) | |
Annual (1997-98 = 100.0) | |
| |
| 2005-06 | 103.3 | 102.5 | 157.5 | 181.3 | 104.0 | 97.7 | 117.7 | 130.8 | 129.7 | 126.8 | 125.4 | 128.4 | 129.4 | 91.0 | |
| 2006-07 | 123.2 | 122.4 | 152.6 | 174.3 | 111.5 | 115.5 | 127.8 | 146.7 | 133.5 | 130.8 | 129.1 | 132.3 | 135.8 | 94.1 | |
| 2007-08 | 133.4 | 200.2 | 151.5 | 170.3 | 155.7 | 153.9 | 140.5 | 170.6 | 138.0 | 134.8 | 133.5 | 136.8 | 151.6 | 92.6 | |
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| (a) Ratios of prices received by farmers and indexes or prices paid by farmers. |
| Source: Indexes of Prices Received and Paid by Farmers - Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, ABARE. |
