APPENDIX - DESCRIPTION OF COMMODITY GROUPS
This appendix provides a description of the specific agricultural commodities that are included in each commodity group, as collected on the ABS Rural Environment and Agriculture Commodities Survey 2013–14 (note that the specific data items collected on the Agricultural Census/surveys vary slightly from year to year).
PASTURES AND CEREAL CROPS CUT FOR HAY
This commodity group includes:
- Pastures for hay
- Cereals cut for hay
- Lucerne cut for hay
- Other crops cut for hay
CEREALS FOR GRAIN AND SEED
This commodity group includes:
- Wheat for grain
- Oats for grain
- Barley for grain
- Sorghum for grain
- Maize for grain
- Triticale for grain
- All other cereals for grain or seed
Important note: rice is not included in this commodity group.
COTTON
RICE
SUGAR CANE
OTHER BROADACRE CROPS
This commodity groups includes the following:
- Canola
- Peanuts (in shell)
- Other oilseeds (includes safflower, soybeans, sunflowers, sesame, linseed)
- Other pulses (includes lentils, navy beans, field peas for grain, faba beans, lupins, chickpeas)
- All other crops (excluding vegetables)
FRUIT (includes fruit trees, nut trees, plantation and berry fruits; excludes grapevines)
This commodity group includes:
- Avocados
- Cherries
- Mangoes
- Nectarines
- Olives
- Peaches (processing and fresh market)
- Other stone fruit
- Apples
- Mandarins
- Oranges (navel, Valencia and other)
- Pears (including Nashi)
- Other orchard fruit
- Bananas
- Pineapples
- Strawberries
- All other fruit
- Almonds (kernel weight)
- Macadamias
- All other nuts (excluding peanuts)
GRAPES
This commodity group includes:
- Grapes for wine production
- Grapes for all other uses
VEGETABLES
This commodity group includes:
- Asian vegetables (including bok choy, gai choy, choy sum, gai lan, kang kong, wombok, gourds, taro, snake beans, dairkon, etc.)
- Beans (including runner and French)
- Beetroot
- Broccoli (excludes chinese broccoli/gai lan)
- Broccolini
- Brussel Sprouts
- Cabbages (excluding Chinese cabbages/wombok)
- Capsicums (outdoor and undercover, excludes chillies)
- Carrots
- Cauliflowers
- Celery
- Chillies
- Cucumbers
- Eggplants
- Leeks
- Lettuces (outdoor and undercover)
- Melons (including rock, bitter and water)
- Mushrooms
- Onions (including brown, red and white)
- Parsley
- Parsnips
- Peas (processing and fresh market)
- Potatoes (processing and fresh market)
- Pumpkins
- Radishes (excludes daikon/Chinese radish)
- Silverbeet
- Spinach (baby and other)
- Spring onions (including shallots)
- Swedes
- Sweet corn
- Sweet potatoes
- Tomatoes (outdoor and undercover, processing and fresh market)
- Zucchini and button squash
- All other vegetables for human consumption
NURSERY PRODUCTION
This commodity group includes:
- Cultivated turf
- Nurseries
- Cut flowers
DAIRY PRODUCTION (excludes dairy cattle intended for beef production)
This commodity group includes:
- Dairy cows in milk and dry
PRODUCTION FROM MEAT CATTLE
This commodity group includes:
PRODUCTION FROM SHEEP AND OTHER LIVESTOCK
This commodity group includes:
- Total sheep and lambs
- Wool
- Total pigs
- Total poultry
- Hen egg production for human consumption
- All other livestock (e.g. goats, horses, domesticated buffaloes)