7123.2.55.001 - Agricultural State Profile, Victoria, 2006-07

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Victorian agriculture supports a broad range of livestock-based production. The sheep industry produces fine wool, sheep for live export and meat for foreign and domestic markets. The dairy cattle industry is the largest of any state and produces milk and dairy products for domestic and overseas consumption.

LIVESTOCK NUMBERS, Victoria, at 30 June


	Meat cattle '000	Milk cattle(a) '000	Sheep & lambs '000	Pigs '000

2003	2 491	1 896	20 388	555
2004	2 390	1 890	19 978	^547
2005	2 540	1 969	20 575	524

2006(b)	2 646	1 758	17 908	668
2007(b)	2 575	1 668	17 174	463

^ estimate has a relative standard error of 10% to less than 25% and should be used with caution
(a) Excluding house cows.
(b) The ABS has moved to a new frame from the 2005-06 Agricultural Census onwards. This means that data are not directly comparable with historical time series. For more information, please see the technical notes at the back of the 2005-06 edition of the source publication.
Source: Agricultural Commodities, Australia (cat. no. 7121.0).

This section contains the following subsection :
Meat Cattle
Milk Cattle
Sheep and Lambs
Pigs