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Title:
Australian Crop Report: February 2019 No. 189
Series:
Australian Crop Report
Series Issue:
No. 189 - February 2019
Publication Date:
19/02/2019
Description:
Overview Australian crop report provides high quality and timely information that supports higher farm gate returns through informed decision making by primary producers. In this edition, ABARES will release its latest forecast of summer crop production and its latest estimate of winter crop production in 2018-19. Key issues Drier and warmer than average seasonal conditions in cropping regions in Queensland and northern New South Wales during December and January reduced prospects of summer crop production in 2018-19. The unfavourable seasonal conditions curtailed planting of dryland summer crops in the latter part of the planting window, lowered soil moisture levels and reduced yield prospects of dryland crops. According to the Bureau of Meteorology climate outlook for March to May 2019 (issued 14 February 2019), rainfall in most cropping regions in Queensland and northern New South Wales is more likely to be below average than above average but this likelihood is generally stronger in Queensland. Planting of summer crops is now largely complete. Total area planted to summer crops is estimated to have decreased by 23% in 2018-19 to around 1.0 million hectares. Total summer crop production is forecast to decrease by 33% to around 2.7 million tonnes. Total Australian winter crop production is estimated to have decreased by 20% in 2018-19 to 30.4 million tonnes. This is a 4% upward revision to the forecast in the December 2018 edition of Australian crop report, driven by better than expected production in Western Australia.
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Publisher:
ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
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Identifier:
ISBN 978-1-74323-417-4

ISSN 1447-8358

DOI https://doi.org/10.25814/5c63543a223b0
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