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Title:
Australian crop report: February 2014 No.169
Series:
Australian Crop Report
Series Issue:
No. 169 February 2014
Publication Date:
11/02/2014
Description:
The report is a quarterly report with a consistent and regular assessment of crop prospects for major field crops, forcasts of area, yield and production and a summary of seasonal conditions on a state by state basis. Key Issues: * Generally unfavourable seasonal conditions during the 2013-14 summer crop planting window are expected to result in a decline in summer crop production. * The unfavourable seasonal conditions have limited the area planted to summer crops and reduced prospective yields of dryland crops. * Total Australian summer crop production is forecast to fall by 25 per cent to 4 million tonnes. Falls in production are forecast for all major summer crops, including grain sorghum, rice and cotton. * For the major summer crops, Grain sorghum production is forecast to decline by 36 per cent to 1.3 million tonnes and rice production is forecast to decline by 22 per cent to 907 000 tonnes. Cotton production is forecast to fall by 8 per cent to 1.3 million tonnes of cottonseed and 940 000 tonnes of cotton lint. * Australian winter crop production was not significantly affected by recent dry and warm seasonal conditions. Total winter crop production is estimated to have increased by 17 per cent in 2013-14 to 44 million tonnes, the second largest winter crop on record. However, there are significant regional variations in winter crop production. * Winter crop production in Western Australia is estimated to have increased by 55 per cent in 2013-14 to 17.2 million tonnes. In South Australia, winter crop production is estimated to have increased by 31 per cent to around 8.6 million tonnes. Victorian winter crop production is estimated to have risen by 2 per cent to 7.1 million tonnes. * In contrast, winter crop production is estimated to have declined by 14 per cent to 9.3 million tonnes in New South Wales and by 20 per cent to around 1.6 million tonnes in Queensland. * For the major winter crops, wheat production is estimated to have increased by 20 per cent to 27 million tonnes and barley production is estimated to have increased by 28 per cent to 9.5 million tonnes. Although canola production is estimated to have declined by 12 per cent to 3.5 million tonnes, this remains the second largest canola crop on record.
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Publisher:
ABARES : Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences : Department of Agriculture
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Identifier:
ISBN 978-1-74323-175-3

ISSN 1447-8358
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