4610.0.55.008 - Experimental Estimates of the Gross Value of Irrigated Agricultural Production, 2000–01 to 2006–07 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 15/05/2009  First Issue
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APPENDIX 1 - DESCRIPTION OF COMMODITY GROUPS

This appendix provides a description of the specific agricultural commodities that are included in each category (note that the specific data items collected on the Agricultural Census/surveys vary slightly from year-to-year).

CEREALS FOR GRAIN/SEED


    This commodity group includes:
  • Wheat for grain
  • Oats for grain
  • Barley for grain
  • Sorghum for grain
  • Maize for grain
  • Millet for grain
  • Triticale for grain
  • All other cereals for grain or seed

CEREALS FOR HAY

    Commodity description: Cereals (including wheat, oats, and forage sorghum) cut for hay.

PASTURES FOR HAY

    This commodity group includes the following:
  • Lucerne pasture for hay
  • Other pasture for hay

PASTURES FOR SEED

    This commodity group includes the following:
  • pastures for seed production

COTTON

    This commodity group includes:
  • seed cotton
  • cotton lint

SUGAR CANE

    This commodity group includes:
  • sugar cane for crushing
  • sugar cane for plants

OTHER BROADACRE CROPS

    This commodity groups includes the following:
  • Mung beans
  • Other field beans
  • Soybeans
  • Hops
  • Fennel (bitter)
  • Lupins for grain
  • Oil poppies
  • Peanuts
  • Field peas for grain
  • Chickpeas for grain
  • Popcorn for grain
  • Canola
  • Safflower
  • Sesame
  • Sunflower
  • Tobacco
  • Vetches for seed
  • Lentils
  • Coriander
  • Faba beans (incl. tick, horse and broad)
  • Pyrethrum
  • Peppermint
  • Lavender
  • Crops (excl. cereals) for hay
  • All other crops (excluding vegetables for seed and human consumption, fruit and grapevines)

FRUIT (includes fruit trees, nut trees, plantation and berry fruits; excludes grapevines)

    This commodity group includes:
  • Oranges - navel
  • Oranges - valencia
  • Oranges - other
  • Grapefruit
  • Lemons
  • Limes
  • Mandarins
  • All other citrus
  • Apples - trees 6 years and over
  • Apples
  • Pears (excl. Nashi) - trees 6 years and over
  • Pears (excl. Nashi)
  • Nashi pears - trees 6 years and over
  • Nashi pears
  • All other pome fruit
  • Apricots
  • Avocados
  • Carambola
  • Cherries
  • Custard apples
  • Dates
  • Jackfruit
  • Guava
  • Mangoes
  • Nectarines
  • Olives
  • Peaches (processing)
  • Peaches (fresh)
  • Plums
  • Prunes
  • Rambutan
  • All other stone fruit
  • All other orchard fruit
  • Almonds (kernel weight)
  • Cashews
  • Macadamia
  • Pecans
  • Walnuts
  • Nuts nec
  • Black currants
  • Blueberries
  • Raspberries
  • Strawberries
  • Bananas
  • Kiwi fruit
  • Papaws / Papaya
  • Pineapples
  • All other fruit

VEGETABLES FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION AND SEED

    This commodity group includes:

    Vegetables for human consumption:

  • Artichokes
  • Asian gourds (excluding bitter melon)
  • Asian vegetables (including chicory chinese cabbage bok choy and wong bok)
  • Asparagus
  • Beetroot
  • Broccoli
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Butter beans (processing and fresh market)
  • Cabbages
  • Capsicums (excluding chillies)
  • Carrots
  • Cauliflower
  • Celery
  • Chillies & peppers
  • Chinese cabbage
  • Cucumbers
  • Eggplant
  • Fennel bulb (Finnochio)
  • French & runner beans (processing)
  • French & runner beans (fresh)
  • Garlic
  • Ginger
  • Herbs - lemon grass etc
  • Herbs - Other herbs (e.g. basil coriander etc)
  • Leeks
  • Lettuce
  • Lettuce (head)
  • Lettuce (looseleaf butterheads and colour fancy)
  • Marrows & squashes
  • Melons - bitter (gourd)
  • Melons – honeydews
  • Melons - rock & cantaloupe
  • Melons - watermelons
  • Melons - other
  • Mushrooms
  • Okra
  • Onions (red)
  • Onions - spring (incl. shallots)
  • Onions - white & brown
  • Parsley
  • Parsnips
  • Peas - green (processing) - shelled weight
  • Peas - green (fresh) - pod weight
  • Potatoes
  • Pumpkins; triambles; trombones; etc
  • Radish
  • Silver beet and spinach
  • Snake beans (processing and fresh market)
  • Snow peas and sugarsnap peas
  • Spring onions, shallots and bunching onions
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Swedes and turnips
  • Sweetcorn
  • Tomatoes - fresh
  • Tomatoes - processing
  • Zucchini and button squash
  • Other outdoors vegetables for human consumption
  • Other undercover vegetables for human consumption
  • All other vegetables
    And vegetables for seed:
  • Cabbages for seed
  • Carrots for seed
  • Cauliflower for seed
  • French & runner beans for seed
  • Onions for seed
  • Peas - green for seed
  • Potatoes for seed
  • All other vegetables for seed

NURSERIES, CUT FLOWERS AND CULTIVATED TURF

    This commodity group includes the following:
  • Cultivated turf
  • Nurseries
  • Cut flowers

PRODUCTION FROM SHEEP

    This commodity group includes the following:
  • wool
  • sheep and lambs slaughtered

PRODUCTION FROM OTHER LIVESTOCK

    Other livestock includes the following:
  • domesticated buffalo
  • goats (domesticated) - only included in 2003-04 and 2004-05 Agricultural surveys
  • all other livestock - total number (not included from 2003-04 onwards)