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HOW MUCH ARE AUSTRALIA'S CROPS AND LIVESTOCK WORTH?

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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:

• on the ABS website at the following address: Value of Agricultural Commodities Produced, Australia (cat. no. 7503.0)