This Insights report describes the current state of Australian agriculture, covering its role in the broader economy, trends in production, farm incomes, industry structure and productivity, climate change impacts and risk management, agricultural employment, sustainability and trade.

This Insights article looks at the trends in foreign direct investment in Australia’s agricultural sector, its potential benefits, community concerns about it, and the range of Australian policies that are involved in its regulation.

Quantification of the trade effects of non-tariff measures provides an important input for decision making. This technical paper outlines improvements to an earlier ABARES methodology that quantifies the trade effects of non-tariff measures at a bilateral and product level.

This report summarises the impact of non-tariff barriers on agriculture and presents new modelling results that show non-tariff barriers are equivalent to a 19% tariff and are a billion dollar burden on Australian agricultural exports.

National Feral Pig Current Distribution in Australia (2024) is a continental spatial dataset of the modelled current distribution of feral pigs (Sus scrofa) in Australia.

Gross value of agricultural production is forecast to rise by $6 billion to $88.4 billion in 2024–25 ($94.3 billion including fisheries and forestry), the second highest result on record. Livestock and livestock product values also to rise as strong demand and prices increase turn-off.

Australian winter crop production is forecast to increase by 16% to 55.1 million tonnes in 2024–‍25, the fifth highest on record. Strong production across Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland is more than offsetting reduced winter crop yields in South Australia and Victoria.

This report presents the underlying measurement framework used for the ABARES Farmland Price Indicator and is based on the working paper by Boult et al. (2023). It outlines the use of administrative data supplied by CoreLogic in a stratification model to estimate average Australian farmland prices.

These spatial datasets provide information on the prime use of the Australian landscape. They have been provided to the Australian Bureau of Statistics as an input to the National Land Account and to inform the development of the first National Ecosystem Account, as part of the national approach to environmental-economic accounting.

This report presents the latest estimates of farm labour use and workforce characteristics derived from the ABARES survey of horticulture farms in 2022–23.