AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Cotton farms in the Murray-Darling Basin 2012-13 to 2014-15

Cotton farms in the Murray-Darling Basin  presents key farm performance measures for irrigated cotton growing farms in the Basin, including data on water trading and use of irrigation technologies, with an emphasis on results from 2012-13 to 2014-15. 

 ABARES has conducted surveys of irrigation farms in selected industries and regions in the Murray-Darling Basin since 2006-07. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) funded this latest survey. 

 Around 90 per cent of Australia's cotton is grown in the Murray-Darling Basin, mostly in the northern Basin. Reflecting a fall in irrigation water availability and therefore cotton production, average farm cash incomes declined in both 2013-14 and particularly 2014-15. Despite declines in farm cash income, over 70 per cent of farms recorded positive rates of return (excluding capital appreciation) in 2014-15. 

 Flood and furrow systems were the most used irrigation technology for applying water to cotton crops. At least 80 per cent of farms used this technology over the survey period. 

 While a majority of cotton growers did not buy or sell irrigation water, up to a quarter of farms purchased water in drier years. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, Agriculture, Farming, Land and Farm Management, Murray-Darling Basin, cotton, farm, farm performance, irrigation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Cotton farms in the Murray-Darling Basin 2013-14 to 2015-16

Overview  
Cotton farms in the Murray-Darling Basin presents key farm performance measures for irrigated cotton growing farms in the Basin, including data on water trading and use of irrigation technologies, with an emphasis on results from 2013-14 to 2015-16. 

 ABARES has conducted surveys of irrigation farms in selected industries and regions in the Murray-Darling Basin since 2006-07. The survey was funded by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. 

Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, Farming, Murray-Darling Basin, cotton, farm, farm performance, irrigation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australia's wheat supply chains: infrastructure issues and implications

In 2012-13, Australia exported 18.6 million tonnes of wheat with a value of around $6.3 billion, or around 16 per cent of the total value of rural exports. Previous ABARES analysis has identified wheat as one commodity where Australian producers may benefit from a significant increase in demand. 

 This study provides a detailed analysis of the wheat supply chains of the two biggest wheat producing states, Western Australia and New South Wales, with a focus on: 
• providing a snapshot of the existing wheat supply chains in these states, including estimates of supply chain costs 
• identifying current infrastructure impediments affecting the movement of wheat from farm to port 
• illustrating the potential impacts of increasing wheat production and rationalising the rail network on the shares of wheat transported by road and rail and the spatial pattern of road and rail use. 
 ABARES is also undertaking other detailed assessments of the role of economic infrastructure in the supply chains of other major export commodities including beef and high value airfreight products. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, Australia, Farming, access pricing, competitiveness, freight movement, infrastructure, logistics, rail, road, supply chains
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian water markets report 2013-14

The Australian water markets report 2013-14 presents national statistics on water markets, including water entitlement trade and water allocation trade volumes and prices, trade processing times and environmental water holdings and trade. The report summarises water trading activity within surface and groundwater systems across Australia, with a particular focus on the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) region. 

 This report is the seventh edition in the series. It is the first completed by ABARES since taking responsibility for the report from the former National Water Commission. 

 The report shows how water market activity in Australia has grown between 2007-08 and 2013-14, including increased volumes of water entitlement trade and water allocation trade. At a regional level, the vast majority of water trading activity still occurs within the MDB, particularly trade of surface water allocations in the Southern MDB. 

 Water allocation prices were generally higher in 2013-14 relative to 2012-13 due to slightly lower storage levels and water allocation volumes. However, water prices during 2013-14 remained well below the peaks observed during the drought years of 2007 to 2009. 

 The report shows the progress of the Commonwealth in recovering water for the environment to satisfy the Basin Plan reforms. In recent years there has been a switch in water recovery away from buybacks and towards infrastructure upgrades. 

 For the first time, the report presents statistics on environmental water transfers: where environmental allocations held in one region (for example, the Victoria Murray) are transferred to a 'delivery partner' (a local environmental agency) in another connected region (for example, the South Australian Murray). These transactions have no financial component but are included in official trade statistics. In 2013-14 environmental transfers accounted for over 40 per cent of total water allocation trade by volume in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. 

 Accompanying this report is a spreadsheet containing the data tables underlying the figures and maps presented in the report and the Australian Water Markets Database (a database of all water trades across Australia from 2007-08 to 2013-14). 

Tags: Farming, Murray-Darling Basin, WATER, WATER Groundwater, WATER Surface, environment, environmental water, groundwater, surface water, water access entitlement, water allocation, water markets, water trade
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian vegetable-growing farms - Physical characteristics web-report

Overview  

 Since 2007 ABARES has conducted an annual survey of vegetable-growing farm businesses to provide industry and government with information about farm-level production and the financial situation of vegetable growers. This web-report presents an overview of the physical characteristics of the vegetable-growing industry from 2006-07 to 2016-17. 

 Key Issues  
• Queensland and Victoria are the two largest vegetable-growing states, together accounting for 55 per cent of the total value of vegetable production in 2015-16. 
• From 2006-07 to 2015-16 the total number of Australian vegetable-growing farms fell by 37 per cent largely as result of a decline in the number of small vegetable-growing farms planting less than 20 hectares. Most of the decline was in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. 
• From 2006-07 to 2015-16 the intensity of vegetable production increased with the proportion of total farm cropping area planted to vegetables trending upwards in all states except Western Australia and Tasmania. 
• The average area planted to vegetables per farm increased from 2006-07 to 2016-17 mainly due to increased plantings of a range of more intensive vegetable crops such as Asian greens and other specialty vegetables. 


Tags: Australia, Farming, agricultural commodities, costs, farms, financial performance, income, physical, profit, vegetables
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian vegetable growing farms: an economic survey, 2016-17 and 2017-18

Overview  
 Since 2007 ABARES has conducted an annual survey of vegetable-growing farm businesses to provide industry and government with information about farm-level production and the financial situation of vegetable growers. This web-report present estimates of farm financial performance, farm debt, equity, capital, investment and physical characteristics for the vegetable-growing industry from 2006-07 to 2017-18. 

 Key Issues  
• In 2017-18 average farm cash income of Australian vegetable-growing farms is estimated to have increased by 12 per cent to $319,000 per farm, the highest in real terms* since ABARES began surveying vegetable-growing farms in 2007. Average farm cash income is estimated to have increased in all states except Queensland and Western Australia. 
• The average rate of return (excluding capital appreciation) of Australian vegetable-growing farms is estimated to have increased to 5.9 per cent in 2017-18, following an average return of 4.9 per cent in 2016-17. 
• Average debt of Australian vegetable-growing farms decreased by 20 per cent to around $438,000 per farm in 2016-17, mainly because of reduced working capital debt. With reductions in average farm debt the proportion of farm receipts needed to fund interest payments remains low at around 2 per cent. Around one-quarter of vegetable-growing farms held no debt in 2016-17. 
• The total value of capital for all Australian vegetable-growing farms decreased by 15 per cent in real terms from 2006-07 to 2016-17 because of a reduction in the number of vegetable-growing farms. From 2006-07 to 2016-17 the total number of Australian vegetable-growing farms fell by 31 per cent. Most of the decline was largely a result of a decline in the number of small vegetable-growing farms planting less than 20 ha. 
• Australian vegetable growers made an average of $280 million in new capital investment each year from 2006-07 to 2015-16, in real terms. In 2016-17 vegetable growers made a total of $319 million in new investment, with around half of vegetable-growing farms made capital additions. 
 * Note: real dollar values are adjusted to remove the effect of inflation. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE surveys, Australia, Farm cash income, Farm debt, Farm investment, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, INDUSTRY surveys, Vegetable-growing farms, vegetable
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Tasmania - CRA/RFA - Forests - National Estate - Flora Species / Community Richness

In the context of Australia as a whole, Tasmania, as a region, is not regarded as exceptionally diverse for most floral groups. This pattern is consistent with the usual tropical-temperate diversity shift seen in most parts of the world. On a regional basis, however, some areas are obviously significant in terms of flora species richness.  

All sites in this coverage are classified according to National Estate criterion A3: Importance in exhibiting unusual richness or diversity of flora, fauna, landscapes or cultural features

The assessment for this criterion was divided into two areas of analysis: the richness of flora species and the richness of forest communities. Species-level richness is often referred to as alpha (a), or within-area, diversity and is usually measured as the number of species occurring within an area of a given size. Forest community richness is effectively a surrogate measure of the rate of change of species: a between-area, or beta (b) diversity, measure. It is often a good reflection of environmental diversity, where strong gradients produce rapid transitions of different forest communities and their associated species.

This database is a digital polygon coverage of Tasmania (captured at 1:500 000 scale) detailing sites with a high flora species or community richness. Species richness and community richness of flora are coded with a unique number, the relevant National Estate values and criteria, and cleared land status.

This is an archived dataset jointly owned by the Commonwealth and the Tasmanian Governments under the Tasmania-Commonwealth Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) data agreement of 8th November 1997.This data is available to the public under licence from the Department as part of the Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy.

Any reproduction of this dataset must carry the following statement:
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia and Tasmanian Government 1998.
Departmental Deed

Tags: BOUNDARIES, BOUNDARIES Biophysical, Downloadable Data, ECOLOGY, ECOLOGY Community, FORESTS, HERITAGE, HERITAGE Natural, VEGETATION, VEGETATION Structural
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Australian vegetable growing farm businesses: an economic survey, 2013-14 and 2014-15

Overview  
 Since 2007 ABARES has conducted an annual survey of vegetable growing farm businesses. These surveys provide comprehensive information on the physical and financial characteristics of vegetable growing farms in each state. This report contains results from the ABARES survey of vegetable growing farms conducted from March to May 2015, which collected data on the characteristics of vegetable farms in 2013-14 and 2014-15. 

 Key Issues  
• Between 2005-06 and 2013-14, the estimated average farm cash income of Australian vegetable growers remained relatively constant. Over this period, increased estimated average total cash receipts were matched by increased estimated average total cash costs. This reflects an increase in the size of vegetable growing farms and a shift towards high-value, high-cost vegetable crops. 
• In 2014-15 (the most recent survey year) average farm cash income of Australian vegetable growing farms is estimated to have remained largely unchanged at around $186 000 a farm. In real terms, estimated average farm cash income increased or remained similar to 2013-14 across most states. The exception was Western Australia, where production was lost at farms around Carnarvon as a result of Cyclone Olwyn in March. 
• The average rate of return to farm capital of Australian vegetable growing farms remained steady between 2013-14 and 2014-15 at 2.6 per cent. Between 2005-06 and 2009-10, the estimated average rate of return on capital (excluding capital appreciation) across Australian vegetable growing farms was higher than the grains, dairy and broadacre livestock industries surveyed by ABARES. However, between 2010-11 and 2013-14, rates of return (excluding capital appreciation) across Australian vegetable growing farms declined. 
• Around 34 per cent of Australian vegetable growing farms reduced overall farm debt in 2013-14, mostly as a result of a cash flow surplus (that is, profit). In comparison, 24 per cent of farms increased debt--mostly for the purpose of purchasing land. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE surveys, Australia, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, INDUSTRY surveys, economics, farm financial performance, income, profitability, survey, vegetable growing farms
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian vegetable growing farms: an economic survey, 2012-13 and 2013-14

Overview  
 Since 2007 ABARES has conducted an annual survey of vegetable growing farm businesses. These surveys provide comprehensive information on the physical and financial characteristics of vegetable growing farms in each state. This report contains results from the latest survey of vegetable farms conducted between March and June 2014, covering 2012-13 and 2013-14. 

 Key Issues  
• In 2013-14, average farm cash income is estimated to have declined to $156 000, 4 per cent lower than in 2012-13. Generally average to above average seasonal conditions helped growers to maintain the high yields of 2012-13. Overall vegetable production was also higher because the average area planted to vegetable crops increased. However, the resulting increase in vegetable cash receipts was partially offset by lower vegetable prices. 
• Estimated farm cash income in 2013-14 was mixed between the states, increasing in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, but declining elsewhere. Average farm cash income is estimated to have increased most in Victoria, where vegetable production and prices increased for the main vegetable commodities grown. Farm cash income is estimated to have decreased most in Queensland, where lower vegetable prices offset higher production and expenditure on hired labour increased in line with an increase in the average area of vegetables planted and harvested. 
• In 2012-13, the most recent year for which data is available, vegetable farm business debt (in nominal terms) was $535 000 on average. Between 2005-06 and 2012-13 estimated average farm debt has increased, as did the average value of total capital as a result of higher land values, particularly for vegetable growing farms close to large metropolitan areas. Working capital debt increased the most between 2007-08 and 2012-13, overtaking debt attributable to land purchases. After initially increasing, the ratio of total interest paid to total cash receipts has stabilised at about 5 per cent, and the equity ratio has remained around 80 per cent over the eight years to 2012-13. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE surveys, Australia, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, INDUSTRY surveys, economics, income, profitability, vegetable
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australia's Forestry Industry 2017

Australia's Forestry Industry 2017 map provides a detailed snapshot of the forest industry, including the location of major wood processing facilities, native forest tenure, hardwood and softwood plantations, as well as roads and forestry ports. 

 The map also includes information on sawmills, historical and projected national sawlog availability, the areas under native forests and commercial plantations. 

 The map presents resource information in a simple and easy to understand way that can assist in planning, scoping regional industry and development opportunities. 

Tags: Environment, FORESTS, FORESTS Natural, FORESTS Plantation, FORESTS statistics, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, INDUSTRY statistics, forestry sector, wood production, wood products
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australia's forestry industry 2015

Australia's Forestry Industry 2015 map provides a detailed snapshot of the forestry industry, including the location of major wood processing facilities, native forest tenure, hardwood and softwood plantations, as well as roads and forestry ports. 

 The map also includes information on sawmills, employment, historical and projected national sawlog availability, the areas under forest or plantation and new plantation area by planting year. 

 The map presents resource information in a simple and easy to understand way that can assist in planning, scoping regional industry and development opportunities. 


Tags: FORESTS, FORESTS Natural, FORESTS Plantation, FORESTS statistics, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, INDUSTRY statistics, forestry sector, wood production, wood products
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian Crop Report: June 2018 No. 186

The report is a quarterly report with a consistent and regular assessment of crop prospects for major field crops, forecasts of area, yield and production and a summary of seasonal conditions on a state by state basis. 

 Key issues  • It has been a mixed start to the 2018-19 winter crop season. Timely rainfall in May in most cropping regions in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales facilitated sowing of winter crops despite warmer and drier than average seasonal conditions in March and April. However, seasonal conditions in most cropping regions in Queensland and northern New South Wales were drier than average throughout autumn. 
• With lower layer soil moisture at the end of autumn below to very much below average in most cropping regions in Australia, sufficient and timely winter rainfall will be critically important for crop development. If rainfall is insufficient, or poorly timed, crop prospects will likely deteriorate, particularly in New South Wales and Queensland. 
• Winter rainfall is likely to be around average in cropping regions in Western Australia but below average in most other cropping regions, according to the latest three-month rainfall outlook for June to August 2018 issued by the Bureau of Meteorology on 31 May 2018. 
• Total area planted to winter crops is forecast to fall by 4 per cent to 21.1 million hectares. Area planted to wheat, canola, chickpeas, oats, lupins and lentils are all forecast to fall. Area planted to barley is forecast to rise in all states because of favourable expected returns to feed grains and it is more tolerant of drier than average seasonal conditions 
• Total winter crop production is forecast to fall marginally to 37.7 million tonnes, assuming winter rainfall is sufficient and timely. 
• Total Australian summer crop production is estimated to have increase by 13 per cent in 2017-18, driven by increased sorghum and cotton production. This estimate is 3 per cent lower than the forecast presented in the February edition of  Australian crop report  because of lower than forecast rice production. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Crops, AGRICULTURE Crops statistics, Australia, Australian, CLIMATE AND WEATHER El Nino, CLIMATE AND WEATHER La Nina, Farming, INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY Primary, June, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, autumn, autumn rainfall, barley, canola, chickpeas, climatic and agronomic conditions, cotton, crop development, crop harvesting, crop planting, crops, grains, lupins, oilseeds, production, rice, soil moisture conditions, sorghum, south eastern Australia, spring, spring rainfall, statistics, summer, summer rainfall, wheat, winter, winter rainfall
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences