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Title:
Australian crop report: February 2013 No.165
Series:
Australian Crop Report
Series Issue:
No. 165 February 2013
Publication Date:
12/02/2013
Description:
The report is a quarterly report with a consistent and regular assessment of crop prospects for major field crops, estimates of area, yield and production and a summary of seasonal conditions on a state by state basis. Key Issues: * The 2012-13 summer crop season has been less than favourable to date with heatwave conditions in early to mid-January, and until recently, generally very much below average rainfall across the major summer cropping regions. * Recent flooding in some summer cropping regions has so far caused minor damage to summer crops. For other regions, the rainfall is expected to benefit late sown summer crops and increase the area planted to crops with a later planting window, such as grain sorghum in central Queensland, mung beans and sunflower * Total summer crop production is forecast to fall by 13 per cent in 2012-13 to around 4.8 million tonnes. If realised, this will be around 14 per cent higher than the average of 4.2 million tonnes over the five years to 2011-12. * Grain sorghum production is forecast to decrease by 23 per cent in 2012-13 to 1.7 million tonnes and production of cotton lint and seed is forecast to fall by 21 per cent to 945 000 tonnes and 21 per cent to around 1.3 million tonnes, respectively. In contrast, rice production is forecast to rise by 15 per cent to around 1.1 million tonnes * The area planted to summer crops is forecast to fall by 15 per cent in 2012-13 to around 1.4 million hectares, driven by falls in the area planted to cotton and grain sorghum. This compares with the average area planted to summer crops of 1.2 million hectares over the five years to 2011-12. * The area planted to irrigated and dryland cotton fell by 7 per cent and 85 per cent, respectively in 2012-13. The area planted to grain sorghum is forecast to fall by 12 per cent. * Dry seasonal conditions adversely affected winter crop yields across the country. The largest fall in production is estimated to have occurred in Western Australia, largely reflecting very much below average rainfall during the season. * Harvesting of the 2012-13 winter crops is now complete. The winter crop harvest in Queensland and New South Wales was completed before the recent flooding and was largely complete in south-eastern Australia before the recent bushfires started. * Total winter crop production is estimated to have fallen by 22 per cent in 2012-13 to be around 35.8 million tonnes. This estimate represents a marginal upward revision from ABARES December 2012 forecast of 35.1 million tonnes. * For the major winter crops, wheat production is estimated to have declined by 26 per cent in 2012-13 to around 22 million tonnes; barley production is estimated to have fallen by 15 per cent to 7.1 million tonnes; and canola production is estimated to have declined slightly by 1 per cent to just under 3.1 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: 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 Resources Economics and Sciences, Canberra, February. CC BY 3.0
Identifier:
ISBN 978-1-74323-068-8

ISSN 1447-8358
Asset Name:
pb_aucrpd9abc_003201302_11a
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