National winter crop production forecast to be above average in 2024–25 at 51.3 million tonnes, with increases in area planted and yields of cereals and pulses. Summer crop production in 2023–24 forecast to have remained above average at 4.6 million tonnes, but below previous year’s high.

Value of Australia’s farm production forecast to be third highest on record in 2024–25 at almost $84 billion, an increase on 2023–24 with improved seasonal conditions and higher livestock prices. Average cash incomes for broadacre farms also forecast to increase.

This report builds on our 2012 report (Revised Indicators of community vulnerability and adaptive capacity across the Murray-Darling Basin) to provide a contemporary understanding of the relative vulnerability of communities in the Murray-Darling Basin to changes in access to water for irrigation, and the ability of communities to respond or adapt to changes.

This report supports the review of the Southern Squid Jig Fishery (SSJF) harvest strategy and provides a description of the available data and recommendations for future data collection that would enable more fulsome implementation of the harvest strategy through more robust catch per unit effort (CPUE) and depletion analyses.

This paper is the first to propose and apply a method for the estimation of Australian vegetable productivity and provides a foundation for future efforts to estimate productivity for Australian horticulture.

The Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) project was established in April 2022 by the Department. This report details progress of the first stage of the DEWS project to the end of June 2023, including the development of an initial protype.

This report outlines the process of climate matching using the Climatch V2.0 and the results of the potential distribution modelling for the Polyphagous shot-hole borer in Australia.

This product provides important and timely insights into broadacre farmland prices. The updated dashboard shows farmland in Australia has generally experienced strong growth over the period of observation, continuing to accelerate in recent years.

The Commonwealth Government manages billions of dollars’ worth of water entitlements in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) with the aim of protecting and restoring water-dependent ecosystems. Managing this water efficiently is critical for maximising the health of ecosystems across the MDB for current and future generations.

Higher production volumes, especially from aquaculture, are forecast to boost the nominal value of Australian fisheries and aquaculture production by 0.5% to $3.56 billion in 2023−24.