This Insights report covers 8 key aspects of Australian agriculture: its role in the broader economy, trends in production, exports, biosecurity, agricultural employment, industry structure and productivity, climate change impacts and risk management, sustainability and trade.

National winter crop production to fall from record highs to 46.7 million tonnes in 2023–24, slightly above the 10-year average. Summer crop production in 2023–24 forecast to remain above average at 4.3 million tonnes.

Value of farm production in 2023–24 ($80.1 billion) and exports ($67.3 billion) forecast to decline from record highs in 2022–23. Agriculture production value forecast to rebound 6% in 2024–25 to $84.9 billion and be third highest on record.

This is the latest compilation of land use mapping information, including for selected agricultural commodities, for Australia’s regions under the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program.

Custom survey results for NSW derived from the ABARES national survey to support an independent state-wide review into invasive species management for NSW being conducted by the NSW Natural Resource Commission.

This release presents updated estimates of investment in Australian agricultural research and development (R&D) to 2022-23. These estimates are valuable because trends in R&D investment have significant short-and-long-term implications for the productivity, financial performance and competitiveness of Australian agriculture.

The agricultural workforce is often only considered to be those who work on-farm. However, there are a large number of people who support agriculture, or work in the agricultural supply chain, who may also be considered as working in agriculture or agriculture support occupations. This report provides a number of definitions to help identify the agriculture workforce that extends beyond the farm gate.

This working paper presents methods to improve analysis and policy advice relating to the impacts of climate policies in computable general equilibrium models, with relevance to agriculture, forestry and land use.

The Australian fisheries and aquaculture statistics 2022 report contains comprehensive data on commercial fishing and aquaculture in Australia covering fisheries production, trade, consumption and employment statistics up to and including 2021–22.

This new resource-set, for cattle and sheep, provides users with a more accurate comparison of global emissions intensities by utilising national greenhouse inventory submissions to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.