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What difference does labour choice make to farm productivity and profitability in the Australian horticulture industry? A comparison between seasonal workers and working holiday makers
Overview The productivity and cost of labour have considerable impacts on farm profitability, especially in the labour intensive horticulture industry. In this study,... -
Regional socio-economic profiling of the forestry industry: Recommendations report
This recommendations report is the final stage of a three year project ABARES has conducted to address improved reporting on social dimensions of forest and wood products... -
Economic evaluation of the costs of biosecurity response options to address an incursion of Mytilopsis sallei (black-striped mussel) into Australia
This publication was produced by ABARES for Plant Health Australia Overview Experience from overseas indicates that the cost of an incursion by black-striped mussel is likely to... -
Future scenarios for the southern Murray-Darling Basin water market
Since the peak of the Millennium drought, the southern Murray-Darling Basin (sMDB) has seen large increases in nut and cotton plantings, decreases in water supply due to... -
A model of water trade and irrigation activity in the southern Murray-Darling Basin
Overview This paper presents a new econometric partial equilibrium model of water trade and irrigation activity within the southern Murray-Darling Basin (sMDB). The model... -
Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16, 250 m
The Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16, 250 m is a data package of seamless continental rasters of land use at the national scale which provides the spatial representation...