{"id":23912,"date":"2025-12-02T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23912"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:35:12","slug":"aussie-wheat-and-livestock-set-course-for-record-2025-26-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/12\/02\/aussie-wheat-and-livestock-set-course-for-record-2025-26-output\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie wheat and livestock set course for record 2025-26 output"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The ABARES\u2019 executive director Dr. Jared Greenville said the winning agricultural niche banked on \u201cstrong livestock markets and steady national crop value.<\/u><\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wheat, Livestock and Feedlots \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This pay will enter farmers\u2019 pockets just when winter wheat is flourishing and livestock are coping well with southern summer drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This season\u2019s winter crop is likely to be the second biggest ever, with an output forecast of 66.3 million tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half of this will be wheat, now on course to reach its third highest output ever at 35.6 million tonnes, per Bloomberg<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the production takes place in the sandy terrain of the country\u2019s west, home to 60% of the national wheat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar premise informs cattle, with high exports to primarily the United States market where there is shortage<\/u><\/a>, buoying ranchers\u2019 earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Reuters <\/u><\/a>on December 1, Australia is increasingly switching export cattle to grain feedlots to cope with foreign demand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By late June 2025, there were 1.6 million head of grain-fed cattle nationally, far above some 1 million in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cattle going into sale via feedlots might hit 2 million by 2027, equal to 50% of all national cattle exports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia Agriculture\u00a0Statistics\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Australia is home to 369 million hectares of farmland, as of the 2021-22 timeline, per the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS<\/u><\/a>). 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<\/u><\/a>).  The sector contributes 2.4% of the national GDP, as of the 2023-24 year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of this swathe of land comes giant food crops such as wheat, whose output in 2021-22 rose to 36 million. The grain\u2019s 2025-26 production was forecast to steady at 35.6 million tonnes<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same situation informs livestock, whose production value represents\u00a039%\u00a0<\/u><\/a>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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is the domestic value of Australia\u2019s hoticulture?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia grows vegetables, flowers, fruits and vineyard crops across the continent in less than 1 million hectares<\/u><\/a>. 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<\/u><\/a>. Vegetables follow with A$5.7 billion ($3.74 billion) while flowers bring in A$3.2 billion ($2.1 billion), as of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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