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Australian lamb: financial performance of lamb producers, 2014-15 to 2016-17

Overview  
 This report presents the detailed financial performance estimates of grain farmers in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17, and discusses incomes, investment, farm debt, and costs of production in a historical context. The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey (AAGIS). 

 This report is a collation of chapters that have been previously published online. 

Farm financial performance (published 18 May 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of the incomes, profits, costs and rates of return for grain farms. 
 Key Issues  
 Average farm cash income of Australian grain farms is projected to increase by around 27 per cent in 2016-17 to $290,000 per farm. Farm cash income in 2016-17 is projected to be the highest in over 20 years, an estimated 85 per cent higher than the average between 2000-01 and 2015-16 (in real terms*). The expected increase in incomes is a result of increased production of wheat, barley and oilseeds. 

 * Note: real dollar values are adjusted to remove the effect of inflation. 

Farm debt and equity (published 12 July 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of the debt, equity, and debt-servicing capacity for grain farms. 
 Key Issues  
 Average farm debt of Australian grain farms is estimated to have increased by around 2 per cent to around $853,000 in 2015-16 (in 2016-17 dollars). Average grain farm debt is projected to increase a further 3 per cent in 2016-17. From 2000-01 to 2015-16 the average equity ratio of grain farms has fluctuated around 85 per cent. The average proportion of farm receipts needed to fund interest payments is projected to fall to just under 6 per cent in 2016-17. 

Farm capital and investment (published 8 August 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of farm capital and farm investment for grain farms. 
 Key Issues  
 The total value of capital for Australian grain farms increased by 77 per cent in real terms from 2000-01 to 2015-16. On a per farm basis, total capital more than doubled to around $5.9 million per farm. The average value of land and fixed improvements per hectare of grain farms doubled from 2000-01 to 2015-16, with an average annual return on land appreciation of 5.2 per cent. 

Physical characteristics (published 9 November 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of physical characteristics for grain farms. 
 Key Issues  
 From 2000–01 to 2015–16 the number of Australian farms sowing at least 40 hectares sown to grains, oilseeds or pulses fell by 27 per cent. The number of grain farms planting more than 1,200 hectares of grains increased with these larger farms accounting for an increased share of total output of grains, pulses and oilseeds. Total Australian grain production in 2015–16 was higher than in 2000–01 despite fewer grain farms and seasonal variations in production. 


Tags: Australia, Farming, agricultural commodities, costs, farms, financial performance, grains, income, profit, receipts
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian grains: financial performance of grain farms, 2015-16 to 2017-18

Overview  
 This report presents the detailed financial performance estimates of grain farmers for 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, and discusses incomes, investment, farm debt, and costs of production in a historical context. The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey (AAGIS). 

 The report will be published as a series of chapters online throughout the year. The web-reports are a new format for publishing this information - aimed at delivering information to stakeholders as the chapters are completed rather than as one annual report. 



Tags: Australia, Farming, agricultural commodities, costs, farms, financial performance, grains, income, profit, receipts
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian grains: financial performance of grain farms, 2014-15 to 2016-17

Overview  
 This report presents the detailed financial performance estimates of grain farmers in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17, and discusses incomes, investment, farm debt, and costs of production in a historical context. The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey (AAGIS). 

 This report is a collation of chapters that have been previously published online. 

Farm financial performance (published 18 May 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of the incomes, profits, costs and rates of return for grain farms. 
 Key Issues  
 Average farm cash income of Australian grain farms is projected to increase by around 27 per cent in 2016-17 to $290,000 per farm. Farm cash income in 2016-17 is projected to be the highest in over 20 years, an estimated 85 per cent higher than the average between 2000-01 and 2015-16 (in real terms*). The expected increase in incomes is a result of increased production of wheat, barley and oilseeds. 

 * Note: real dollar values are adjusted to remove the effect of inflation. 

Farm debt and equity (published 12 July 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of the debt, equity, and debt-servicing capacity for grain farms. 
 Key Issues  
 Average farm debt of Australian grain farms is estimated to have increased by around 2 per cent to around $853,000 in 2015-16 (in 2016-17 dollars). Average grain farm debt is projected to increase a further 3 per cent in 2016-17. From 2000-01 to 2015-16 the average equity ratio of grain farms has fluctuated around 85 per cent. The average proportion of farm receipts needed to fund interest payments is projected to fall to just under 6 per cent in 2016-17. 

Farm capital and investment (published 8 August 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of farm capital and farm investment for grain farms. 
 Key Issues  
 The total value of capital for Australian grain farms increased by 77 per cent in real terms from 2000-01 to 2015-16. On a per farm basis, total capital more than doubled to around $5.9 million per farm. The average value of land and fixed improvements per hectare of grain farms doubled from 2000-01 to 2015-16, with an average annual return on land appreciation of 5.2 per cent. 

Physical characteristics (published 9 November 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of physical characteristics for grain farms. 
 Key Issues  
 From 2000–01 to 2015–16 the number of Australian farms sowing at least 40 hectares sown to grains, oilseeds or pulses fell by 27 per cent. The number of grain farms planting more than 1,200 hectares of grains increased with these larger farms accounting for an increased share of total output of grains, pulses and oilseeds. Total Australian grain production in 2015–16 was higher than in 2000–01 despite fewer grain farms and seasonal variations in production. 

Tags: Australia, Farming, agricultural commodities, costs, farms, financial performance, grains, income, profit, receipts
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian dairy: financial performance of dairy farms, 2015-16 to 2017-18

Overview  
 This report presents the detailed financial performance estimates of dairy farmers for 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, and discusses incomes, investment, farm debt, and costs of production in a historical context. The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Dairy Industry Survey (ADIS). 

 The report will be published as a series of chapters online throughout the year. The web-reports are a new format for publishing this information - aimed at delivering information to stakeholders as the chapters are completed rather than as one annual report. 



Tags: Australia, Farming, agricultural commodities, costs, dairy, financial performance, incom, profit, receipts
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Tasmania - CRA/RFA - Forests - National Estate - Flora Limits of Range

This dataset is a digital polygon coverage of Tasmania (captured at 1:500 000 scale) detailing places where concentrations of flora species reach the limits of their natural range.

The limits of range of flora are coded with a unique number, the relevant National Estate values and criteria, and cleared land status.

All sites in this coverage are classified according to National Estate Criterion A1: Importance in the evolution of Australian flora, fauna, landscapes or climate.

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: Downloadable Data, ECOLOGY Habitat, FLORA, FLORA_Distribution, FORESTS, FORESTS Natural, HERITAGE, HERITAGE Natural, VEGETATION Floristic
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Australian dairy: financial performance of dairy farms, 2014-15 to 2016-17

Overview  
 This report presents the detailed financial performance estimates of dairy farmers in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17, and discusses incomes, investment, farm debt, and costs of production in a historical context. The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Dairy Industry Survey (ADIS). 

 This report is a collation of chapters that have been previously published online. 

Farm financial performance (published 18 May 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of the incomes, profits, costs and rates of return for dairy farms. 
 Key Issues  
 Average farm cash income of Australian dairy farms is projected to decrease by around 18 per cent in 2016-17 to $105,000 per farm. Farm cash income in 2016-17 is projected to be an estimated 8 per cent lower than the average between 2000-01 and 2015-16 (in real terms*). The expected decrease in incomes is a result of reduced milk production per farm and lower milk receipts due to low prices. 

 * Note: real dollar values are adjusted to remove the effect of inflation. 

Farm debt and equity (published 12 July 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of the debt, equity, and debt-servicing capacity for dairy farms. 
 Key Issues  
 Average farm debt of Australian dairy farms is estimate to have increased by around 2 per cent to $956,000 in 2015-16 (in 2016–17 dollars). Average dairy farm debt is projected to decrease by around 6 per cent in 2016-17. The average equity ratio of dairy farms at the national level declined from 85 per cent in 2004-05 to an estimated 79 per cent in 2015-16. The proportion of farm receipts needed to fund interest payments is projected to fall to just under 7 per cent in 2016-17. 

Farm capital and investment (published 8 August 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of farm capital and farm investment for dairy farms. 
 Key Issues  
 The total value of capital for Australian dairy farms increased by 40 per cent in real terms from 2000-01 to 2015-16. On a per farm basis, total capital increased by 133 per cent to around $4.5 million per farm in 2015-16. The average value of land and fixed improvements per hectare for dairy farms increased by 76 per cent from 2000-01 to 2015-16, with an average annual return on land appreciation of 3.9 per cent. 

Physical characteristics (published 9 November 2017) 
 This chapter presents estimates of physical characteristics for dairy farms. 
 Key Issues  
 From 2000-01 to 2015-16 the number of Australian dairy farms fell by 45 per cent. Although most of this decline was in Victoria, the largest percentage decline was in Queensland. The concentration of Australian milk production among the states has shifted considerably, with Victoria and Tasmania expanding their milk production and all other states contracting since 2000-01. Total milk production increased in Tasmania from 2000-01 to 2015-16 but decline in all other states. 


Tags: Australia, Farming, agricultural commodities, costs, dairy, financial performance, income, profit, receipts
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australian beef: financial performance of beef farms, 2015-16 to 2017-18

Overview  
 This report presents the detailed financial performance of beef cattle producing farms in 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18, and discusses incomes, investment, farm debt, and costs of beef production in a historical context. The report draws on data from the ABARES annual Australian Agricultural and Grazing Industries Survey (AAGIS). The report was commissioned by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA). 

 The report will be published as a series of chapters online throughout the year. The web-reports are a new format for publishing this information - aimed at delivering information to stakeholders as the chapters are completed rather than as one annual report. 



Tags: Australia, Farming, agricultural commodities, costs, deef, farms, financial performance, imcome, profit, receipts
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Food demand in Australia: Trends and food security issues

Overview  

 In recent years, ABARES has undertaken research programs that focus on two key economic aspects of Australia's food exports: world food demand to 2050 and implications for Australia’s food exports; and the efficiency of Australia’s infrastructure and food export supply chains. To complement these research programs, this report examines trends and issues in Australia's food market with a focus on domestic food demand. 

 Key Issues  
• The domestic market is important for Australia's food producers including farmers, food processors and food service providers. By value, around two-thirds of Australia’s food production is used in the domestic market. Food imports have become more important, particularly for processed food, but still account for a relatively low share of household food consumption (15 per cent in 2015-16). 
• Food is a major expenditure category for households in Australia-current housing costs, food and transport are consistently the three top expenditure categories (based on data from the 1990s and 2000s). The three top food expenditure categories are: meals out and fast foods; meat, fish and seafood; and fruit and vegetables. 
• Food expenditure per person tends to be higher, on average, for households with higher incomes - notably, the share of total food expenditure spent on meals out and fast foods is significantly higher for households with higher incomes. By contrast, the distribution of food expenditure is broadly similar across household groups based on net worth - that is, households with high net wealth spend relatively more on food in aggregate, but the shares spent on the main food categories are broadly similar. 
• The food industry supplies a broad range of food products and services in response to food demand in different segments of the domestic market. There is ongoing innovation by the food industry to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the food supply chain, including to enhance further Australia's high level of food security. For example, major food retailers have developed product lines to sell imperfect fruit and vegetables at lower prices (such as The Odd Bunch at Woolworths, and Imperfect Picks at Harris Farm Markets). Patterns of food expenditure indicate there are also likely to be ongoing economic opportunities to obtain a price premium for reliable food quality attributes. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, Australia, Australian, Farming, HUMAN ENVIRONMENT Economics, INDUSTRY Primary, INDUSTRY statistics, consumption, data, exports, food, food security, household expenditure survey, imports, production, trade, trading partners
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Australia's forests at a glance 2017

Overview  

Australia's forests at a glance 2017 is a pocket-book compendium of data and information about Australia's native forests and commercial plantations. Much of the data is current to 2015-16 and has been published in detailed reports. 

 The pocket-book covers forest types, areas and how native forests-including old growth forests-are conserved and managed. It also covers wood harvesting, production and consumption of wood products and employment in the forestry and wood products industries, forest certification and codes of practice. 

 Key Issues  
• Australia has 122.6 million hectares of native forest of which 36.6 million hectares are available and suitable for commercial wood production (7.5 million hectares of multiple-use public forests and 29.1 million hectares of leasehold and private forests). 
• Australia's commercial plantations cover around 2 million hectares, of which about half are softwood species (1,036,800 hectares) and half are hardwood species (928,300 hectares). Over the last 10 years, the rate of plantation establishment has decreased from 78,400 hectares in 2005-06 to 1,400 hectares in 2015-16. 
• In the decade to 2015-16, structural change in the forestry sector led to a 4.7 million cubic metres (53 per cent) decline in the harvest of (predominantly hardwood) native forest logs but a 6.0 million cubic metres (159 per cent) increase in the harvest of hardwood plantation logs (mainly pulplogs). Softwood plantations continue to supply most of Australia's sawlogs - 81 per cent of Australia's total sawlog harvest in 2015-16 was from these forests. 
• Since 1999-2000, the number of hardwood sawmills has decreased by 79 per cent, from 862 mills in 1999-2000 to 182 mills in 2015-16. The number of softwood and cypress pine sawmills has decreased by 72 per cent over the same period, from 279 mills in 1999-2000 to 77 mills in 2015-16. Softwood sawmills in 2015-16 were larger on average, greater than 100,000 cubic metres log input capacity, than they were in 1999-00. In contrast, 96 per cent of hardwood sawmills had a log input capacity of less than 45,000 cubic metres in 2015-16 a year. 


Tags: Australian forest, Farming, Forest at a glance, National Forest Inventory, National Plantation Inventory, Paper and paperboard, area, at a glance, carbon, fire, forest, forest certification and codes of practice, forest industry employment, hardwood, imports of wood products, log volume harvested, markets, native forest area, native forest tenure and ownership, nature conservation reserves, new plantations, plantation forest area, plantation forests, sawn wood, softwood, timber harvesting, total forest area, total land area, types and class of forest, wood products statistics
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Grape farms in the Murray-Darling Basin

Overview  
Grape farms in the Murray-Darling Basin presents key farm performance measures for irrigated grape 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. 

 This report focuses on grape farms in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, where most of the Basin's grapes are produced. 


Tags: AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, Agriculture, Farming, Land and Farm Management, Murray-Darling Basin, farm, farm performance, grape, irrigation
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Torres Strait Inhabited Islands (TSRA)

This dataset shows the point location of communities on Torres Strait Islands. There are 18 Islands in the Torres Strait and 19 Communities. St Pauls and Kubin villages are both located on Moa Island. Each point includes an URL attribute pointing to the community pages on the TSRA website. The Island Communities are:

Boigu Island, Warraber Island, Ugar Island, Thursday Island, Saibai Island, Poruma Island, Prince of Wales Island, Mer Island, Masig Island, Mabuiag Island, Iama Island, Horn Island, Hammond Island, Erub Island, Dauan Island, Badu Island, St Pauls, Moa Island, Kubin, Moa Island

The dataset is a point shapefile, created in ArcGIS Version 10.0.


Data Dictionary:

- URL: URL to the community page for the island on the TSRA website.
- Region: Region within Torres Strait (Northern islands, Central islands, Eastern islands, Southern islands, Western islands) from the Torres Strait Island Regional Council.
- Pop2011: Population of each island from the 2011 census.


Data Location:

This dataset is filed in the eAtlas enduring data repository at: data\TSRA\TS_TSRA_Inhabited-Islands_2014


Change Log:

- V2 21-03-2016 (Eric Lawrey, AIMS): Added Regions and population statistics.

Tags: Human Dimensions, Population, Population Distribution, marine
Organization: Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA)
Australia's forests at a glance 2015

Australia's Forests at a Glance 2015 is a pocket-book compendium of data and information about Australia's native forests and industrial plantations. Much of the data is current to 2013-14 and all has been published in detailed reports. 

 The pocket-book covers forest types, areas and how native forests - including old growth forests - are conserved and managed. It also covers wood harvesting, production and consumption of wood products and employment in the forestry and wood products industries, forest certification and codes of practice. 

Tags: Australian forest, FORESTS, FORESTS Agroforestry, FORESTS Natural, FORESTS Plantation, FORESTS production, FORESTS statistics, Farming, Forest at a glance, INDUSTRY Primary, National Forest Inventory, National Plantation Inventory, Paper and paperboard, area, carbon, fire, forest certification and codes of practice, forest industry employment, hardwood, imports of wood products, log volume harvested, markets, native forest area, native forest tenure and ownership, nature conservation reserves, new plantations, plantation forest area, plantation forests, sawn wood, softwood, timber harvesting, total forest area, total land area, types and class of forest, wood products statistics
Organization: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Tasmania - CRA/RFA - Forests - National Estate - Flora Primitive and Relictual

This dataset is a digital polygon coverage of Tasmania (captured at 1:500 000 scale) detailing areas rich in primitive and relictual flora, i.e. flora that exhibit taxonomic remoteness or phylogenetic primitiveness or both.

Primitive and relictual flora polygons are given a unique code, the relevant National Estate values and criteria, and cleared land status.

All sites in this coverage are classified according to National Estate criterion A1: Importance in the evolution of Australian flora, fauna, landscapes or climate.

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: Downloadable Data, ECOLOGY Habitat, FLORA Native, FLORA_Distribution, FORESTS, HERITAGE Natural, VEGETATION Floristic
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water