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Title:
Australian crop report: June 2013 No.166
Series:
Australian Crop Report
Series Issue:
No. 166 June 2013
Publication Date:
12/06/2013
Description:
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: * The outlook for winter crops is promising with conditions for planting generally favourable across most regions of the cropping zone and a favourable outlook for seasonal conditions over winter. * In the eastern states (including South Australia), recent rainfall has generally improved conditions for planting after cropping regions generally experienced very dry conditions during autumn. In Western Australia, autumn rainfall has generally been average to above average. * The winter rainfall outlook issued by the Bureau of Meteorology suggests an above average chance of exceeding median rainfall in most cropping regions in eastern Australian and an average chance of doing so in the cropping regions in Western Australia. * Favourable rainfall during the growing season will be critical to achieving the increase in winter crop production being forecast. With soil moisture presently at low levels, yields will likely be lower than currently assumed if crops do not receive favourable rainfall while growing and developing. * The total area planted to winter crops in Australia is forecast to decline by 1 per cent in 2013-14 to around 22.4 million hectares, due largely to a decline in canola area caused by dry conditions in its autumn planting window. * For the major cereal crops, the area planted to wheat is forecast to rise by 3 per cent to 13.7 million hectares and the area planted to barley is forecast to increase by 2 per cent to 3.8 million hectares. In contrast, the area planted to canola is forecast to fall by 17 per cent to 2.5 million hectares. * Total winter crop production is forecast to rise by 10 per cent in 2013-14 to 40 million tonnes, reflecting an assumed increase in yields in many regions, particularly in Western Australia. * For the major cereal crops, wheat production is forecast to increase by 15 per cent to around 25.4 million tonnes and barley production is forecast to increase by 10 per cent to 7.4 million tonnes. In contrast canola production is forecast to fall by 17 per cent to 3.2 million tonnes. * Harvesting of the 2012-13 summer crops is now largely complete and total summer crop production (excludes cotton lint) is estimated to have fallen by around 9 per cent in 2012-13 to 5 million tonnes. * Grain sorghum and cottonseed production is estimated to have fallen by 23 per cent and 17 per cent to around 1.7 million tonnes and 1.4 million tonnes, respectively. Australian production of cotton lint is estimated to have fallen by 17 per cent to 992 000 tonnes. * In contrast, rice production is estimated to have increased by 26 per cent to around 1.2 million tonnes.
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Publisher:
ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
Right Management:
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Other constraints: Licence type:Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australian Licence (CC By)

Other constraints: Ownership of intellectual property rights: Unless otherwise noted, copyright (and any other intellectual property rights, if any) in this publication is owned by the Commonwealth of Australia (referred to as the Commonwealth). Creative Commons licence: All material in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence, save for content supplied by third parties, logos and the Commonwealth Coat of Arms.

Other constraints: This publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as: ABARES 2013, Australian crop report, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra, June, CC BY 3.0
Identifier:
ISBN 978-1-74323-137-1

ISSN 1447-8358
Asset Name:
pb_aucrpd9abc_003201306_11a
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