Aussie agriculture, fisheries and forestry production value will reach an unprecedented A$106.4 billion ($69.66 billion) in 2025-26, courtesy robust wheat and livestock sectors. 

According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), solo agricultural output will reach A$99.5 billion ($65.1 billion).

The ABARES’ executive director Dr. Jared Greenville said the winning agricultural niche banked on “strong livestock markets and steady national crop value.”

2025-26 exports from agriculture, fisheries and forestry worth A$83.9 billion ($5.44 billion) will contribute most to the combined sector’s production value.

But it is the crop/livestock export value that will flex most muscle at A$78.9 billion ($51.7 billion), equal to A$227,000 ($148,799) a farm.

Wheat, Livestock and Feedlots  

This pay will enter farmers’ pockets just when winter wheat is flourishing and livestock are coping well with southern summer drought.

This season’s winter crop is likely to be the second biggest ever, with an output forecast of 66.3 million tonnes.

Half of this will be wheat, now on course to reach its third highest output ever at 35.6 million tonnes, per Bloomberg.

Most of the production takes place in the sandy terrain of the country’s west, home to 60% of the national wheat.

A similar premise informs cattle, with high exports to primarily the United States market where there is shortage, buoying ranchers’ earnings.

According to Reuters on December 1, Australia is increasingly switching export cattle to grain feedlots to cope with foreign demand. 

By late June 2025, there were 1.6 million head of grain-fed cattle nationally, far above some 1 million in 2020. 

Cattle going into sale via feedlots might hit 2 million by 2027, equal to 50% of all national cattle exports. 

However, Australia is maintaining balance between grain- and grass-fed livestock to meet demand in especially Asian markets that prefer both. 

With such bright output value outlook in Aussie wheat and livestock, local agriculturalists expect a brave 2026. The following statistics find out more about national agriculture as a whole. 

Australia Agriculture Statistics 

Australia is home to 369 million hectares of farmland, as of the 2021-22 timeline, per the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This had risen to 426 million hectares (excepting timber or forestry) by December 2023. In other words, 55% of all land use in Australia goes to agriculture, per the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF).  The sector contributes 2.4% of the national GDP, as of the 2023-24 year. 

Out of this swathe of land comes giant food crops such as wheat, whose output in 2021-22 rose to 36 million. The grain’s 2025-26 production was forecast to steady at 35.6 million tonnes. 

The same situation informs livestock, whose production value represents 39% of all agricultural production (2023-24). Cattle /calves make up the livestock bulk at 16%, followed by sheep/lambs and poultry at 5% of production value apiece (2023-24). Following suit are crops such as wheat at 35% share while fisheries and forestly follow at 7% (2023-24).

Which is the domestic value of Australia’s hoticulture?

Australia grows vegetables, flowers, fruits and vineyard crops across the continent in less than 1 million hectares. Domestic horticultural production value normally averages A$18 billion, as of 2024. Fruit alone other than wine grapes rake in A$6.8 billion ($4.8 billion) for the country (2024), according to the ABS. Vegetables follow with A$5.7 billion ($3.74 billion) while flowers bring in A$3.2 billion ($2.1 billion), as of 2024.