Australia Yearbook - 2001

636 Year Book Australia 2001
Area harvested
15.33 SUGAR CANE, Area, Production and Yield
New South Wales Queensland Western Australia
Production
Yield
Area
harvested
Production
Year
’000 ha. ’000 t t/ha. ’000 ha. ’000 t t/ha. ’000 ha. ’000 t t/ha.
1993–94 15 1 674 112.7 323 29 638 91.8 (a) (a) (a)
1994–95 16 1 825 111.2 347 31 146 89.8 (a) (a) (a)
1995–96 18 1 923 107.8 359 33 898 94.6 1 69 69.0
1996–97 18 2 231 124.0 371 36 232 97.6 1 170 164.7
1997–98 19 2 416 127.0 394 36 790 93.4 3 326 126.7
1998–99 20 2 555 126.0 379 35 587 93.9 3 392 135.5
(a) Data not collected.
Source: AgStats (7117.0); Agricultural Commodities, Australia, 1998–99 (7121.0).
Yield
Area
harvested
Production
Yield
15.34 FODDER CROPS, Area and Production
Hay(a)
Production
Area
Quantity Gross value
Green feed or silage(b)
Area Silage made
Year
’000 ha.
’000 t
$m
’000 ha.
’000 t
1993–94 321 1 227 136.3 707 1 142
1994–95 484 1 074 158.1 n.a. n.a.
1995–96 531 1 965 237.1 1 000 n.a.
1996–97 362 1 329 154.9 n.a. 1 686
1997–98 460 1 737 213.5 n.a. 2 129
1998–99 470 1 954 209.7 n.a. 2 770
(a) Principally oaten and wheaten hay. (b) Principally from oats, barley, wheat and forage sorghum.
Source: AgStats (7117.0); Agricultural Commodities, Australia, 1998–99 (7121.0).
About 95% of production occurs in Queensland
(table 15.33), with 75% of the crop grown north
of the Tropic of Capricorn in areas where rainfall
is reliable and the warm, moist and sunny
conditions are ideal for growing sugar cane.
Fodder crops
Considerable areas of Australia are devoted to
fodder crops, which are either used for grazing
(as green feed) or harvested and conserved as
hay and silage (table 15.34).
To counter Australia’s seasonal conditions and
unreliable rainfall, farmers use fodder
conservation to supplement pasture and natural
sources of stockfeed.
Livestock
The numbers of each of the principal categories
of livestock in Australia are shown in table 15.35
at 10-yearly intervals from 1861 to 1991, and then
yearly.
15.35 LIVESTOCK NUMBERS—At 31 March(a)
Sheep and
Cattle
lambs Pigs
31 March
’000
’000 ’000
1861 3 958 20 135 351
1871 4 276 41 594 543
1881 7 527 62 184 816
1891 10 300 97 881 891
1901 8 640 70 603 950
1911 11 745 98 066 1 026
1921 13 500 81 796 674
1931 11 721 110 568 1 072
1941 13 256 122 694 1 797
1951 15 229 115 596 1 134
1961 17 332 152 579 1 615
1971 24 373 177 792 2 590
1981 25 168 134 407 2 430
1991 (a)(b)23 662 163 238 2 531
1992 (a)(b)23 880 148 203 2 570
1993 (a)(b)24 062 138 099 2 646
1994 (a)(b)25 758 132 569 2 775
1995 (a)(b)25 731 120 862 2 653
1996 (b)26 377 121 116 2 526
1997 (b)26 695 120 228 2 555
1998 (b)26 851 117 491 2 768
1999 (b)26 578 115 456 2 626
(a) Prior to 1943, livestock numbers were recorded at
different times of the year in different States. (b) Excludes
house cows.
Source: AgStats (7117.0); Agricultural Commodities,
Australia, 1998–99 (7121.0); Primary Industries Part
I—Rural Industries 1961–62, Bulletin No. 56 (CBCS).