7123.3.55.001 - Agricultural State Profile, Queensland, 2004-05  
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Queensland agriculture supports a broad range of livestock-based production; the state is the major producer of meat cattle in Australia. The main sheep belt is a broad strip running through the centre of Queensland, extending north-west from the New South Wales border to the shires of Flinders, McKinlay and Richmond.


LIVESTOCK NUMBERS, Queensland, at 30 June

Meat
cattle
'000
Sheep &
lambs
'000
Pigs
'000

2001
11,088
8,660
597
2002
11,284
6,752
643
2003
10,507
4,815
663
2004
11,245
4,824
691
2005
11,380
4,949
666

Source:Agricultural Commodities, Australia (cat. no. 7121.0).




This section contains the following subsection :
      Meat cattle
      Sheep and lambs
      Pigs

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