Australian Dairy Industry In Focus 2009 - Dairying For Tomorrow

Australian dairy at a glance (2008/09)
Table 1
National dairy herd
Average herd size
Milk production
Average annual milk
production per cow
Dairy – Australia’s third
largest rural industry
Dairy – major value-added
food industry
1.6 million cows
200 cows
9,388 million litres
5,750 litres
$4.0 billion value at farmgate
$12 billion value at wholesale
Milk utilisation Cheese 33%
Drinking milk 24%
SMP/butter 25%
WMP 12%
Casein/butter 4%
Other 2%
Production of main
commodities (tonnes)
Milk powders 359,600
Cheese 342,000
Butter (CBE) 148,500
Dairy – major export industry
Percentage of Aust milk
production – exported
Major markets for Australian
dairy products – (tonnes)
$2.9 billion
9% of world dairy trade
45%
Australia 2,604,000
(including 2,178,600 of
drinking milk)
Japan 106,000
Singapore 76,300
Malaysia 80,000
China 61,300
Philippines 50,000
Per capita consumption Drinking milk 104Lts
Cheese
12kg
Dairy industry workforce Direct employment of
approximately 40,000
ABARE estimates a regional economic multiplier of
2.5 from the dairy industry
Abbreviations
ABARE Australian Bureau of Agricultural
and Resource Economics
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ADC Australian Dairy Corporation
AMF Anhydrous milk fat
AUST Australia
BMP Buttermilk powder
CAGR Compound annual growth rate
CBE Commercial butter equivalent, a unit of conversion
of AMF to butter (1kg butter = 0.805kg AMF)
cpl Cents per litre
(e) Estimated data
DA Dairy Australia
EU European Union
EU (15) European Union – original 15 member states
EU (10) Additional 10 accession countries – since May 2004
FNQ Far north Queensland
Gps Gippsland
n.a. Data not available
NCE Natural cheddar equivalent – unit of conversion
of processed cheddar, pastes and spreads to natural
cheddar (1kg processed product weight =
0.806kg natural cheddar)
NDFS National Dairy Farmers’ Survey 2009
NV Northern Victoria/NSW Riverina
(p) Provisional data
(r) Revised data
SEQ South-east Queensland/north-east New South Wales
SMP Skim milk powder
SNF Solids non fat
UHT Milk subjected to ultra high temperature treatment
to extend shelf life
WMP Wholemilk powder
WPC Whey protein concentrate
WV Western Victoria
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