7123.3.55.001 - Agricultural State Profile, Queensland, 2002-03  
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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 and has the second biggest pig herd. 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, McKinley and Richmond.

LIVESTOCK NUMBERS, Queensland, at 30 June
Meat
cattle
'000
Sheep &
lambs
'000
Pigs
'000
1997(a)
10,123
10,528
600
2001
11,088
8,660
597
2002
11,284
6,752
643
2003
10,507
4,815
663
(a) At 31 March.
Source: Agriculture, Australia (cat. no. 7113.0) and Agricultural Commodities, Australia (cat. no. 7121.0).




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

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