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Title:
Australian crop report: December 2012 No.164
Series:
Australian Crop Report
Series Issue:
No. 164 December 2012
Publication Date:
04/12/2012
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: * Winter crop yields have held up well in many winter cropping regions, despite the dry seasonal conditions experienced in the past few months. While total winter crop production is forecast to be lower than the record harvest of last season, yields in many regions were aided by favourable levels of lower layer soil moisture. * In south eastern Australia, seasonal conditions were generally consistent with the spring seasonal outlook the Bureau of Meteorology issued in late August 2012, which was incorporated into forecasts presented in the September edition of Australian Crop Report. * In Western Australia, rainfall was generally below average throughout the growing season and a dry October adversely affected yields in southern parts of the state. * Australian winter crop production is forecast to be around 35.1 million tonnes in 2012-13, which is 23 per cent lower than last year's record harvest, and marginally lower (1.1 million tonnes or 3 per cent) than the forecast released by ABARES in September. * At this forecast level, winter crop production will still be around 14 per cent higher than the average achieved over the five years to 2010-11. * For the major winter crops, wheat production is forecast to fall by 26 per cent to around 22.0 million tonnes; barley production to fall by 18 per cent to around 6.9 million tonnes; and canola production to fall by 16 per cent to around 2.6 million tonnes. * The area planted to summer crops is forecast to fall by 2 per cent to around 1.56 million hectares, driven by a 26 per cent fall in the area planted to cotton. Partially offsetting the fall in the area planted to cotton, the area planted to grain sorghum is forecast to rise by 16 per cent to around 762 000 hectares in response to favourable grains prices and falling cotton prices. The area planted to rice is forecast to rise by 12 per cent to around 121 000 hectares, which largely reflects plentiful supplies of irrigation water. * Total summer crop production is forecast to remain largely unchanged from last season at around 5.5 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 2012, Australian crop report, Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resources Economics and Sciences, Canberra, December. CC BY 3.0
Identifier:
ISBN 978-1-74323-058-9

ISSN 1447-8358
Asset Name:
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